BODIES HOLD
This body of work explores ideas of containment and boundaries. I am interested in how painting acts as a kind of vessel to hold and carry my inner life. These mysteries that I carry within me, how open or closed I am to following the threads tugging away inside? This is what excites me and pulls me to working and exploring the endless possibility of abstraction. Slowing, connecting, being open to it.
I have such love and reverence for bodies, the work that they do, the pathways found to express what our head rejects or isn’t ready to know. Working and making provides this joyous opportunity to explore those little cracks, glimpses inside a different understanding to an intellectual one. How might I unravel ways in which the nervous system has disrupted the conscious connection between my brain, muscles, sinews, tissues, blood…
Painting is a way for me to explore my muscles memories in a way that is kinetic and alive.
