Artist Statement

My current work explores the intersection of human and geologic structures and processes. Mysterious intrusions of glowing, orange alabaster interrupt joints and bone-like forms, evoking a sense of the holographic, or of a temporary suspension of materialization. As in the geologic record, the haunting stone anomalies within my forms suggest evidentiary remnants of ocurrances or irregular events in the history of a human structure. The displacement of experience in rock and bone.

While these forms and themes serve as the underpinnings of my work, my practice is just as much a material-driven endeavor, with its origins in my study of fiber art. Weaving, sewing, spinning, dying, felt-making —all of the arts that we traditionally associate with the feminine, find their place amongst the kind of heavy machinery needed to cut solid rock, shape it, and then polish it to a knowing glow. This experimentation with the integration of fiber softens and warms the rock, giving it a more human quality as it shifts its meaning about within bone-like forms.

Although my work is not regional in concept, the unique geology and ecosystems of the Sedona landscape, where I currently live, have begun to work their more literal references into my themes and forms, creating, sometimes, a unique reflection of place.