Early Work by Series

The Modern Prometheus 2012
porcelain slip, fired porcelain, plastic, mixed media & found objects

Slip-coverd plastic sculptures that evoke skin, classical drapery and roadside waste piles. These works explore self horror, the abject and the complicated relationships human’s have with their own creations. The title of the series references part of the original title of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.

Left 2011
porcelain installation, dimensions variable

This installation of over 500 individual hand-made leaf shapes, each with the imprint of a human hand.

Spotlights illuminating the porcelain from above and behind allow the leaves to glow and the skin-print is visible. The hands all reach upward in a silent chorus, reaching toward the light. Some leaves will be piled on the ground, light bouncing off them instead of through them, so they seem solid and lifeless.

 The piece is entitled Left, the past tense of leave. It can also mean a left hand - the careful viewer will notice the absence thereof (They are all right hand prints). This work addresses ideas of ascension, not necessarily in the religious sense, but in the sense of some rising and some being left behind. The process of making the leaves is laborious, each one being carefully crafted, pressing my own body into the clay. This returns the human element to the mass-produced object. The suspended leaves hang in the formation of an arch, which can also be seen as a bell-curve and the crest of a sine wave. The piece creates a contemplative space, displaying a dynamic between the different leaves, as individuals and as a group. The viewer can to walk through the hanging leaves, and as they are at various heights, be able to go under the arch in the middle and see them from below, creating an immersive environment. The piece can also be viewed more passively from a distance- offering the essential choice of whether or not to engage the individual, or just see a population.

Terra Firma 2008- 2011

These works represent the mutual erosion of the human body by nature, and the landscape by human beings.

Porcelain Project 2009
digital photography of handmade porcelain in city environments

Fleeting impressions of the people who have been before us continually surface and disappear in the mind as we experience visual clues in our daily trajectory. We share the same space, and we leave behind bits of ourselves, and in this way, we transform, travel and sometimes even bond with other humans. In this piece porcelain forms act as stand-ins for the mental impression of the person who has left behind various traces.