Artist Statement
I am a sponge. I absorb everything. I make art to channel and transform my emotions. When I lost my parents as a young adult, I crossed an ocean to forget, my life boat was drawing. When I became a mother, drawing was my anchor. When cancer attacked my own body, sculpting became my buoy. The act of making is vital to me. My art pieces make up series narrating the story of segments in my life. I am a mix media artist. On paper, I make drawings, on a wall, I make paintings, on a press, I make monoprints, with clay I build sculptures. But all the pieces, whether two or three dimensional, are symbolic representations of ideas drawn from my personal iconography. Over the last five years, my focus has been on building ceramic sculptures. After a life of working in two dimensions, I made a powerful discovery: I am a sculptor. I have found that clay is the perfect material for me. It has infinite ways to embed my physical energy and allows me to build expressive new forms inspired from my drawings. Working with clay has opened up an endless desire to build new sculptures. An expression of my experience as a woman and a mother, my subject is the female body. I am currently working on a project titled ‘Female Vaisselle’, a series of ceramic sculptures and drawings where the female figure is represented as a symbolic vessel, a hollow container with human attributes. These humanized vessels explore the body as a storage for interior life experiences. |