I work by playing.
My creative process mirrors the way in which I played as a child. I begin with a found object, and experiment by recontextualizing it, and imagining a new life for it. Much like a child with a toy, I spend hours creating dialogues between the materials and I imagine new forms of play suggested by my creation. In a sense, I ‘play house’, using traditional materials and very traditional processes, such as sewing, quilting, pickling. However, the use of these materials, for me, has always been about fantasy and play, as opposed to functionality. My work is a conversation between found materials and my imagination. I form narratives by playing with my own imagery and text and combining it with the imagery and text of others. Narrative is integral to my work. I am interested in playing with different forms of story telling, and experimenting with the language of others as well as my own language. The blurring of authorship and the layering of narrative is of interest to me. I question what the basic elements in a story are, and what must be present in order for a story to be told. Can a story be told without words? It always seems to come down to obsessive making and repetition. I feel like nothing is complete, unless I have investigated as many options as possible.
