Artist Statement 2011
The motivation behind making my artwork comes from a deep-rooted desire to affect and connect with the world around me. As and artist, I take my experiences and individual perspectives and turn them into a voice for self-expression and a tool for communication.
I choose to work with glass primarily, as my medium because it is so alluring, so fragile and so representational of the human condition. The usage of glass as a sculptural medium in my work, allows me to play on the tension and fragility of the nature of the material as a metaphor for life.
My interests lay in experimenting and experiencing tension, balance, light, space, form and architecture. I strive to use architectural elements as a tool to relate to art and to balance my aesthetics, while maintaining a relationship to the human body.
I am interested in the way an object connects with the viewer both intellectually but more importantly, physically. The work I am making currently has a large presence and confronts the viewer in a very corporeal way.
I am referencing architectural elements like bridges, towers, arches, doorways and windows as objects to explore everyday building components in a more complex psychological way.
The objects I am creating are striving to consider the relationship between architecture and the associated concepts we as humans have with forms we use and see everyday.