Artist Statement
I start with my stuff. The arrangement and fastenings reference visual funnies or remain formal. Looking at fashion with sculpture in mind I am interested in the ways that the body and its costume can work as one non-human object. As a cat psychic I am inspired by the ongoing discourse with my two cats, Mr. Teenie and Bramble. They are the innocent eyes in my work and they teach me how to encounter my surroundings with curiosity and daring lightheartedness. My sculptures become toys for humans and cats.
As a self-proclaimed professor of fluffiology I try to translate a feeling of warmth and dreaming through my work. Different states of sleep and sedation are my goals for the viewer. I’d like to put people to sleep like a lullaby through my performance. The materials and use of time and space act as the lullaby. Once asleep I would like to serve a silver platter of dream snacks that force the body into uncontrollable dance. The dream snacks should be a variety of flavors; some being sweeter like the image of a floating orb slightly pink with powder. Others should be spicy like jalapeños or a plump body covered completely in green gems.
At what point do the objects around me become characters and at what point does my body become an object? How can the “stuff” be viewed as more than its assigned material and become something else?
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