Artist Statement

My work begins with the body, but it is never only about the body. It is an attempt to register how a self comes into being through sensation, resistance, and encounter. I am interested in awakening the senses not as pleasure alone, but as awareness. A way of feeling one’s way back into experience. The sculptures invite a perceptual and internal response before an intellectual one, asking the viewer to recognize something lived rather than something explained.

What I make functions as a nonverbal self-portrait. Not a likeness, but an ongoing record of temperament and refusal. Adventure, risk, exploration, and a resistance to convention shape both my life and my work. I am drawn to what unsettles habit and interrupts expectation. The self, as I understand it, is not stable or polite. It is formed under pressure.

That pressure appears materially. Life has a hard, aggressive side, and this enters the work through rigid, angular forms that resist softness or ease. At the same time, there is a counterforce. Curves, fluid transitions, and open surfaces insist on vulnerability. The sculptures hold these elements together without resolving them. Hard and soft. Control and release. Assertion and exposure. The self emerges in the tension between them.

Stone is essential to this inquiry. It does not yield easily. It resists intention and demands attention. To work in alabaster, marble, limestone, or bronze is to accept limits and work within them. The figure is not imposed on the material so much as negotiated with it. What appears is the result of patience, discipline, and repeated acts of correction. In that sense, the process mirrors the formation of the self itself. A slow emergence shaped by constraint, error, and persistence.

The sculptures do not aim to resolve identity. They hold it in suspension. What matters is not arrival, but the act of becoming. The self is not something uncovered intact, but something gradually released. Pressured by form. Shaped by resistance. And always, in some way, unfinished.