I am a interdisciplinary artist with a professional theatre background. My working mediums include, ceramics, mosaics, fibre, and photography. Recycled materials are essential to my life and work. The salvaged components within my artworks create transformative visual metaphors, where junk finds redemption, and where that which is broken regains its integrity. I work across several media via pieced connections. Each element that I hand make and gather together is dialoging across time, cultures, and history. My work is of a piece. I enjoy the expansiveness of working with the multiplicity of elements, as well as the visual significance and weight of the parts when viewed as whole. The hunting and gathering of salvaged materials, along with the repetition of form through breaking, piecing, wrapping, cutting, shaping and layering, surrounds my method with kinetic energy. Therefore, my connection with my materials is always visceral, organic and elementally surprising. The act of reclaiming and of mindfully hand-piecing is, for me, an active meditational practice. I experience an inner stillness of mind, body, and spirit in connection with the beauty of sacred creativity. It is my sense that the resulting artwork becomes imbued with a devotional spirit. My approach is rooted in Zen arts philosophy and the process arts movement where the artist’s creative crossing combined with her physical actual working are recognized as inherent and valued aesthetics within the final artwork.
