Artist Statement

The concepts I am interested in evoking in my art is in how human beings/I respond to and attempt to cope with the eventuality of death, whether symbolic or physical. Ephemeral, poetic imagery depicting a sense of loss and longing, beauty, and decay form the visual language of my artistic production.

I use a range of materials and media, which have been adopted by other contemporary artists. These materials include found materials/objects, disposable goods/or rubbish, natural materials in surrounding environments which are then combined with each other and/ or other materials. These are set to construct meditations on issues of memory, identity, and the formation of wonderings, using the realms of myth, spirituality, and archetypes.  My drawings, objects and installations are influenced by readings about questions of death and dying. These can include Buddhist beliefs on impermanency to any random thought about death.  Through the use of delicate materials, ghostly images, and ruins, I explore the fragility and mortality of the body and psyche.

In the past years I have noticed that the works I have created have been concerned with ideas of impermanency, which is that all things dissolve and die. We watch the human body go through the process of aging, weakening and deterioration, and then finally die.  This is a truth that is a fact for us all whether we choose to contemplate about it or not.