Artist StatementI am a sponge. I absorb everything. I draw to channel my emotions. When I lost my parents, I crossed an ocean to forget, my life boat was drawing. When I became a mother, drawing was my anchor. When cancer attacked my body, drawing was my buoy. The act of drawing is what is vital to me. Each drawing however successful leads to the renew of the act of drawing. Together, my drawings make up series narrating the story of segments in my life. On paper, I make drawings, on a wall, I make paintings, on a press, I make monoprints and with clay I make sculptures. But all the pieces, whether two or three dimensional, are drawings because they are representations of ideas drawn from my personal iconography. My subject is the female figure. I am currently working on ‘Female Vaisselle’, a series of large ink drawings and ceramics where the female figure is represented as a vessel, a hollow container with human attributes. This humanized vessel explores the body as a storage for interior life experiences. |