Statement on Work
I am making a set of cast resin figures which harness larger forces at work in our world today. I see them as demigods or bodhisattva, connecting our physical world with the non-physical. With this small pantheon, my aim is to give us a prism to reflect on the mysterious energies around us.
With these works I am also interested in looking at posture and poses. I think attention to these subjects in art could use some recuperation. In India and China in the 7th and 8th centuries, certain bodhisattva sculpture exhibit a surprising naturalism. In their very felt features and poses, down to the slouch of their hips, they sidestep a merely totemic presence, to pull the demigod into our world. Part of my inquiry with this work is to ask how comportment can yield a worldview, and pull the otherworldly into our timeline of lived, human experience.
With these works I am also interested in looking at posture and poses. I think attention to these subjects in art could use some recuperation. In India and China in the 7th and 8th centuries, certain bodhisattva sculpture exhibit a surprising naturalism. In their very felt features and poses, down to the slouch of their hips, they sidestep a merely totemic presence, to pull the demigod into our world. Part of my inquiry with this work is to ask how comportment can yield a worldview, and pull the otherworldly into our timeline of lived, human experience.