Artist Statement
My art practice and research explores how we perceive and experience the world through our embodied interactions with the physical world. I combine sculptural and craft techniques with printmaking and photography, making objects and images about the interrelationship between the body and mind, the sense of touch, and the body-as-object.
Recently, I have been exploring haptics as the interface between the subjective and objective, the self and the other. Drawing a material language from Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and Derrida's On Touching, I have used print and sculpture to embody the sense of touch with materiality. I am fascinated by devotional objects such as Christian relics, the concept of the material and immaterial, and the role of embodied experience in the meaning-making process.
I create Japanese woodcut prints, which depict shifting multi-layered forms, printed in multiple layers of transparent watercolour. My work also includes digitally printing photographs and paintings onto light silks and Japanese papers, then rendering these into sculptural forms with wax, pewter, glass, natural fibres and other materials.
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