STATEMENT

I am fascinated by the human condition and use this as a starting point in my work. My intentions are best conveyed through fragmentation of the human form, where my interest is to encourage, if not require, the viewer to participate with the work.

My work questions various stages of life, which are determined primarily by the biological development of the body from birth to death. I see the human life cycle as an experience containing many beginnings and endings. Connections between the beginning and ending of life are a continual source of inspiration

Some of my work is directly concerned with the relationship between clothing and growth and clothing and skin. Each has the potential to encompass physical as well as emotional concerns. The body, when patterned, usually refers to clothing to some degree. I enjoy the ambiguity that this situation presents. Furthermore, I am fascinated by how our clothing and/or appearance are capable of summing up who or what we are yet it is only a facade. The ideas of mask, disguise, transformation and identity are fundamental to my concerns.

The ceramic surfaces I obtain are a vital component of my work through which I intend to confront the viewer?s attention with the outermost skin of the work. I am attracted to heavily worn surfaces that reveal the history of an object. I see our skin as having the same potential as the surfaces by which I am intrigued. Throughout our life as we age our appearance inevitably changes and in the process our skin records this story.