I make work about the body and how it exists in the world, both internally and physically. My relationship to the body, and being female is central. Vulnerability becomes a point of connection and is at the core of my practice. As a former dancer, my body was my primary language. That history still drives the work. Movement, repetition, and physical exhaustion are not separate from the process. They are the process.

In my soft sculptures and installations, I’m drawn to repurposed fabrics and found materials because they already hold a history of the human mark. They carry the weight of lived experience, of the body, of use, of something emotionally real. I’m interested in that residue and how it can be felt. The installations, allow the work to expand beyond the single object and into the surrounding space so the work can be immersive yet intimate, and the viewer isn’t just looking but is physically inside the work.

Pantyhose is another material I use to create forms that reference the female body. Sometimes it contains bound and intertwined fabrics and fill, while in other works it is stretched, folded, or allowed to take its own shape. Pantyhose acts like a second layer of skin: something that can protect and conceal, but also compress and expose. Having worn them throughout my former profession, I associate them with the contradiction between covering the body and putting it on display. The sculptures allow me to explore that tension through containment, exposure, sexualization, and my own complicated relationship to my body.

The video and performance pieces connect with these same ideas, allowing the body and the sculptures to exist in relation to one another.

My work begins with personal experience, but it exists within the larger experience of being a woman. I’m interested in the pressures placed on women’s bodies and lives, how we are looked at, sexualized, objectified, protected, restricted, and controlled, but also how these pressures become internalized. Ideas around beauty, youth, desirability, motherhood, and what a woman should be can shape how we see ourselves and how we see one another. Through the work, I explore the space between what is imposed on us and what we come to impose on ourselves, and how these forces shape our relationship to our bodies, our identity, and our sense of freedom.