Artist Statement

These objects celebrate their difference from everything around them and acknowledge difference in the world. They as we are unique, authentic, imaginative, and special. The work does not privilege the space behind the surface, there is no window into a place, a time or an event. This form of interiority has its own historical context within the western canon of art. Here exterior and interior function together, to provide a performative spatial presentation or condition where being and circumstance, care and criticality are of equal importance. The surface of the work does not enclose space as much as shelter it. Emphasizing the place in front of the work, the work looks at the viewer vice versa the viewer looks to the work. How we inhabit reflects on our quality of being. Our spiritual or moral character is all about how we relate to objects, to other people, to ourselves, to the community and to the environment. In between, is our gaze one of malaise, neutrality, standing with or of taking away?