My work is focused on bringing a heightened awareness of age, mortality and the internal body. By drawing awareness to the vulnerability of the human body by revealing the internal organs, I confront the dread of the unknown by exposing what is normally obscured or concealed. I use images of animals in different phases of decomposition to represent the aging process as a journey toward the primal and instinctual. I employ figurative sculpture as the physical embodiment of the human desire for permanency in an ephemeral universe. My figures are shown in stages of transformation and transfiguration. Aging is the external expression of the journey towards mortality, and the pliable but permanent nature of clay personifies this journey. Combining the medium of clay with the subject of the flesh creates a visual relationship between birth and death, permanence and temporality. I examine my themes from a personal and art historical perspective. Inspired by cinema, mythology, legends of saints, religious iconography and Renaissance paintings, I compose a very mystical realm, a vivid and visceral world, where figures are imbued with an enigmatic psycho-emotional power.
