Statement/CV

I am a textile and performance artist with a fondness for language and physical touch. I am obsessed with the flash in the pan, the inexhaustible pleasure, and the endless high of what human experience is capable of. I am interested in the mechanics of how ideas and their manifestation form the structures of society and how those structures hold up over time. Those that survive become our culture leading to the primary equation: pop=immediacy/culture=longevity.
The whole of every society is made of individuals. The root inquiry is therefore the role of an individual to society and the reciprocity of that relationship.
My work is about relationships: how pieces work as a whole and the nuances of each individual piece. Relationships are ever evolving scaffolding that define life. It is all about some thing in relation to another. How we interpret and navigate these relations make up the stories of our lives.
The starting point in my practice is my own body and how it relates to the world and others - how they perceive it as the first gateway to my inner self. I am bound by my flesh and it’s ability to receive and interpret information. This informed many of the My Body is Your Body projects and the Narcissa Gold persona. These have evolved in the textile works exploring soft forms in space - the voluptuous being sculptural as a counterpoint to digital and printed images of the body.
My practice moves beyond my body to language and contemporary symbols. Modern Intimacy pokes fun at the absurdity of forming relationships in the digital space. The text(ile) works bring up challenging ideas within the form of comfort objects. And the Allow Wallow Swallow pieces lean on everyday symbols to examine our relationships to the society around us.
Our existence is intangible and concrete in the same instance. Our minds are capable of traveling through space and time while our bodies move firmly in one direction. Our actions, memories, and capacity to imagine can build cities and destroy civilizations. My work aims to understand these relationships in what limited way may be possible.