Art is an inquiry into the poetic and philosophical conditions of dwelling. Sometimes like a stage play I reconcile relationships between body, site and language to evoke the conditions and locations between the internal and external. I reach for forms which synesthetically embody the psychology of orientation, comparative, existential conditions within the corporeal and geographical contexts. Form and site provide the material culture, the substance and context, from which meaning is distilled.

  I see form as an accessing of meaning, as a material holding of the ephemeral and the poetic.  It is within the poetic realm that form, as material and language, finds relevance with the human condition, its being and time. I mine the physicality and psychology of the material seeing in them an expansiveness and a capacity to evoke sensorial experience.  The material acts as embodiment and mediator, between the durative and the evanescent, the revealed and the obscured, the above and the below. Comes in silence, seeking response.

  It also underlines  the import of transience as well as the transformative potential of warmth, and the cool of exposure.  These translucent effigies evoke the visible and the invisible; their repetition is a measuring and recounting emphasis on the dialogue between the singular and the collective, on one's position and orientation within and without.  They act as visual voice .. The metal installation as a place, as time for eternity becomes a support for the body.

  Language, in its absence and presence, has a  potential to contain and build meaning, this is an important aspect within my work. Hard yet poetic it comes to disturb. I conceive of language as a substance, finding in it a history of thought, of culture, of gender - an etymological mapping of human expression, voice and belief.  Whether directly or indirectly employed, language, as visual and textual material, is essential to the conceptual foundations of my art.  Deconstructing language allows access to the meanings inherent in the familiar, the quotidian.  Language can be both compass and location.