Artist Statement
My sculptures are abstractions of moments I experience in the landscape. I am attracted to rocks as genderless entities whose transformative nature codes them with life, and I explore what it means to be emotionally intimate with them. As I travel through the natural world, I document geological textures through 3D scanning and then use digital fabrication techniques to reproduce the rocks in new materials such as wood and paper. I balance these translations with crafted forms, marrying the land and the hand as I expand upon the rock’s natural life cycle and envision fragments of future landscapes.
Geology documents the histories and impressions of its countless lives. In an exchange of knowledge with the land, I fossilize my own moments of the physical and emotional human experience into tactile, geological representations. When we look at rocks, we glimpse the past while experiencing a current state of being. My sculptures help me confront what it means to be mortal in these animate landscapes that collapse deep time into the present moment.