For me, analysis happens through making rather than through thinking alone or through intuition. The work itself becomes a form of thinking. Lately I have been reflecting on how an idea enters matter — how a certain vibration of spirit and inner experience can descend into the three-dimensional world. Only through the act of making does this transition become possible. Through repetition and work, things gradually clarify; some elements fall away while others remain, until a form begins to crystallize.
My initial interest lay in the interaction between different textures and materials. Last winter I became attentive to small pools of melting snow — fragile transitions between solidity and dissolution. Formally, I am drawn to the tension between density and openness, between condensation and disintegration of form. The relief-collages emerge from this investigation as attempts to work within these unstable conditions of matter and perception.