As a visual artist, I’m attracted to a wide range of materials for art-making, beyond paints, inks, paper, and canvas, which I typically use. My explorations of varieties of non-traditional materials and concepts led to new ways of presenting or displaying the final products. Pieces executed in bees wax, crocheted cotton, bottle caps, and more, all demand attention to space, and this led me away from walls to the floor and to ceilings and open spaces where the work could speak to the viewers, enhancing their experience of it.

 

My first installed three-dimensional work was called Memory House, made from welded shaped steel, interwoven with organic materials like fibres and branches woven throughout, and placed in open space. Viewers were able to enter the dome-like shape and slip into a quiet intimacy, reflecting on memories.