Artist Statement

Visions of ancestral past

Floating in that headspace so elusive yet omnipresent

Paramount to creation.

Chiseling marble, chasing silver

Honouring Demeter in the eternal stone, setting sapphire into seed.

The path leading there is plain.

The path leading there is pain.

The path leading there is joy.

The path is leading there.

Meditation on my Greeco-Bornean ancestry through the decomposition of landscapes is my tangible connection to those long dead. The earth is what holds them now, and what nurtures us today, so my job is to care for it by practicing mindfulness. It is my way of approaching sustainability.

As I meditate and create, the same thoughts persist. Floating in the mind, I see the same family of forms manifesting between my hands; I make plants and stones, feeling as though I am exploring some kind of subconscious jungle landscape. Whether I am drawing, painting, bending wire, sculpting wax or manipulating metal, I always end up with the semblance of a plant, or a rock. The thought that these forms come from somewhere within me whether my own past, genetic memory from my ancestors or memories from a past life, is inescapable.