artist's
     statement

I investigate change and how it is expressed in the interplay between these dualities: 2D and 3D, finite and infinite, tension and tranquility, feeling and seeing, experience and analysis. How do we go back and forth from tension to tranquility; 2D to 3D; finite to infinite; feeling to seeing; and experience to analysis?

I create site-sensitive objects and site-specific installations and drawings. The objects are highly polished, solid cast graphite forms ranging from 5 to 1200 pounds. The site specific installations consist large graphite forms as well as whole rooms covered in graphite, polished until the surface gleams. The installations also contain solid graphite objects. The graphite on paper drawings correspond to specific graphite objects. Like these sculptures, the drawings are made by rubbing and polishing graphite. The drawings are also value studies. A value from grey to black on the drawing corresponds to the thickness of an object.

Tension is manifested through material, geometry, surface and gravity. My aim is for you to feel the tension but not necessarily see it. One experiences the interplay of tension and tranquility: each part of the space exists in relationship to the other.

Through the repetition of polishing, I experience all of the transitions when I make the work, fluctuating between: finite and infinite; feeling and seeing; tension and tranquility, 2D and 3D; experience and analysis. These transitions are also perceived by the viewer. When the work is experienced, I hope that ultimately these dualities fall away and distill into the sublimity of the present moment.