I am intrigued by the meaning we make from our experiences. How our minds create narratives that have inevitable outcomes if followed. I have witnessed how my own narrative led to depression; and then I changed the narrative by taking responsibility for every thought and feeling. Each of my bodies of work reflects some part of this learned process of healing and integrating. Through sculptural abstraction people are allowed to derive their own meaning and have an opportunity for their own healing. I use clay for its flexibility and fluidity to communicate these ideas.
Allison Sinkewich and her series of cross-stitch stills from “2001, A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick. This set of 12 stills has a profound level of precision and vibrancy. At first glance the work looks like a photo, as you get closer you see the individual stitches acting like ones and zeros like a computer’s color display system. The artist has created a dialogue between thread and technology, AI and ancient practice, art and its creator.
“Nobody knows what the fuck they are doing at any level, so just go for it.”
This statement may be crass, but it is also one of the most helpful realizations I have ever had in my life. I have a habit of overthinking, a habit of perfectionism. I want to do all the messy work behind the scenes and then poof, like a magic trick, share the perfect, final version. And I have done this because that's what I thought I had to do to be enough, to be worthy, to be a real artist, and so people take me seriously and of value.
LEGACY TOTEM - Our inheritance as humans is more than our genetic dispositions, or family it is unfolding at every level societally, politically, environmentally, and spiritually. And our legacy that we are leaving collectively and individually is greater than we could ever imagine, what are we leaving for those who come after us?