Artist Statement

Making is creating a situation to confront myself—to see the expectation, the anger, the frustration, the pride, the joy. Visitors come and go, sometimes banging the door and leaving me no peace, other times sneaking into the house and pretending to be invisible. I like using techniques to reveal variations, imperfection, or glitches, they can only happen at the stage I make it, I can’t predict it beforehand. They fail all the time, and I’ve learned to be ok with it. The middle stage is a treasure. Wire has a spectrum of quality, as delicate as thread or as bulky as brick. The fine, twisted wire asks for my trust. The tension repeats when you put it on. Dance.