Advanced Fiber Studio (Highlights)
My figurative work surrounds manipulating reality through dream scapes and memory. Using a diary-state-of-consciousness, I invite you into the internal/external and ask you to question where we lie between these real and created environments.
Working with a language of symbols to reconstruct different dream narratives, I make work that both reveals intimate secrets and conceals them within the marginalia of the diary page. The work presents a story to be deciphered, buried in the decorated borders and collections of fruit stickers, and looped scribbling lines. The repeated use of fruit in the work becomes synonymous to material, and narrative. Expanses filled with pink blushing figures encapsulate various selves and counter personas interacting. My focus is on the human tendency to contain multiple relationships with oneself, and the effect memory, resource, support, dreams, care, and time alter these connections. I draw on collective memory that circles around childhood and fuse it into a form of play * * using fruit juice, gelpen, invisible ink, pencil and pen, markers, watercolor, thread, beads…
My work exists as drawing in multiple forms: including printmaking, painting, illustration, animation, with the work building off of drawn line and symbols. I make as an invitation, as an open heart locket, as a means to expose a secretive internal and share my heart like a small fruit to all that will receive and partake.
Delete comment: My figurative work surrounds manipulating reality through dream scapes and memory. Using a diary-state-of-consciousness, I invite you into the internal/external and ask you to question where we lie between these real and created environments. Working with a language of symbols to reconstruct different dream narratives, I make work that both reveals intimate secrets and conceals them within the marginalia of the diary page. The work presents a story to be deciphered, buried in the decorated borders and collections of fruit stickers, and looped scribbling lines. The repeated use of fruit in the work becomes synonymous to material, and narrative. Expanses filled with pink blushing figures encapsulate various selves and counter personas interacting. My focus is on the human tendency to contain multiple relationships with oneself, and the effect memory, resource, support, dreams, care, and time alter these connections. I draw on collective memory that circles around childhood and fuse it into a form of play * * using fruit juice, gelpen, invisible ink, pencil and pen, markers, watercolor, thread, beads… My work exists as drawing in multiple forms: including printmaking, painting, illustration, animation, with the work building off of drawn line and symbols. I make as an invitation, as an open heart locket, as a means to expose a secretive internal and share my heart like a small fruit to all that will receive and partake.