Work in development: My work progresses in series, beginning usually with found objects or collections of objects, or with materials that possess poetic properties. I’m drawn to those that resist transformation, or that provide an obstacle to work against in both a concrete and a conceptual sense. My studio practice takes place in contradiction, and in the gap between language and the forms it describes.
With Heads (2009) I'm continuing experiments with “flesh colored” polymer doll maker's clay to transform found mannequin and doll heads into accidental portraits. A concurrent series explores human attributes in baked, or burnt, salt dough. Certain of these dough-works, (ex:Braided, Singed) relate in turn to Tools for Today (2008), in which household and studio helpmates, ranging in scale from paint brush to push broom, are coiffed with synthetic or human hair to intervene between domesticity and labor, feminine personality and portraiture, duty and pleasure.
Whirlpool (2009) is from a current, ongoing series in which cast and carved chalk figures erase themselves while writing or drawing.
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