Artist's Statement
Sculpture is distinct from the other visual arts in that the medium is acted upon by gravity. I explore this quality in my work by using balance - the confluence of form and gravity - as tangibly as I do wood or metal. My sculptures consist of intersecting components that support each other, without reliance on glue or nails, to stand or suspend in perfect equilibrium. The physical form and the balance are inseparable from each other, both conceptually and structurally.
By emphasizing this relationship among form, gravity, and balance, I explore the physicality that we, as humans, instinctively understand through our own bodies. Balance occurs at the point between order and disorder, between motion and stillness. There is an inherent tension that can equally easily produce a sense of utter tranquility or one of tenuous unease. By exploring the edges between these opposing sensations, I try to reveal a sense of motion, gesture, and even dance without incorporating explicit movement - to express dynamism through a static form.
My sculptures may be seen as pure abstractions, or may suggest one or another object. Each sculpture begins with a form or movement that I notice in the world around me, or even a feeling from within me; but as I work, this origin often becomes indistinguishable, even to me. I develop the forms as sketches on paper. This drawn quality persists in the finished piece when seen from certain angles; it makes a link between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional.