“Where does a body begin and end?” This is the core question animating my work, a question inspired by experiences with illness which revealed my life to be a collaboration with the trillions of other entities with whom I share my body. The singular, the separate, and the human of a body dissolves with the twist of a magnification lens, and tangled webs of interconnection between bodies, within and without, replace it.
Movements of matter through pores, orifices, and wounds; non-human conversations recorded in scars, polyps, and damaged genetic codes; and the fragmented remains of telecommunications infrastructure - all become sites of interconnection between bodies explored in sculptural works often incorporating a diverse range of materials including telecommunication cable casings, natural latex, earth, and mylar.
I draw no distinctions between natural and “synthetic” materials but am drawn to the discarded, the abject, the fragmented, the invisible, and although many of these materials carry the remnants of industrialization and capitalism, the works are built slowly and improvisationally, in collaboration with material. Staples, zip ties, and rivets often act as forms of suture - stitching together diverse materials to create forms resembling the cells, organs, and the interior landscapes of bodies.