Since I began working as an artist, I have been interested in narrative, memory, domestic life, and the effect of place on our perception of these topics. However, changes both personal (having a child, reengaging with contemporary dance after 15 years) and global (political unrest, climate change), have pushed me to look outside this familiar territory. I have rediscovered my body as a material for art making: my physical self can be my most direct tool for exploring the world around me.
I can use myself to define boundaries, to fill spaces, and to call attention to natural phenomena. Coupled with drawing, my movements create an intuitive, empirical, and phenomenological basis for art making in the landscape.
Response to my son’s daily piano practice, learning Béla Bartók’s Mārentelul from the Romanian Folk Dances, 2024.
Response to my son’s daily piano practice, learning Erik Satie’s First Gymnopedie, 2023.
Response to my son’s daily piano practice, learning Erik Satie’s First Gymnopedie, 2023.
Response to my son’s daily piano practice, learning Beethoven’s Für Elise, 2022.
Exploration of different modes of time keeping, from bells to footsteps, created from footage collected while in residence at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, 2022.
Exploration of Lisbon’s many puddles, fountains, and other waterways, created while in residence at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, 2022.
Exploration of studio space created while in residence at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, 2022.
Made in response to columns in artist’s studio and listening to her son’s piano practice in an upstairs room, 2021.
Made in response to artist’s empty studio and listening to her son’s piano practice in an upstairs room, 2021.
Made as part of Lemon Residency project, summer 2021.
Made in response to California’s Safer at Home order during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020.
Made in response to the architecture and surroundings of Centro Negra, the art center of AADK in Blanca, Spain, 2019.
Made in response to the studio courtyard wall of Centro Negra, the art center of AADK in Blanca, Spain, 2019.
Made in response to patterns of sun and shadow in artist’s apartment, 2018.