I am curious about how haptic perception creates an understanding of the objects and order of things around me- through interaction, observation, and tactile memory. If perspective, scale, and time are all relative, how might my relationship within different ecologies shift? How might my evaluations of “useful” and “useless” change if I learn to see the world a little differently?
I use drawing, sculpture, and video in an ongoing process of tracing, transcribing, dissecting, re-assembling, and transforming information to re-imagine an object and bring it out of a readily understood context, allowing for an encounter with the unfamiliar. This speaks to confronting the unknown, the role of myth, and the power and limits of explanation. Play becomes a transformational activity which acknowledges the impermanence of this confrontation. In these actions I seek to examine ideas of impermanence, expectation, translation, and interdependency for a more empathetic understanding of the world around me.