Art Statement
Art Statement
My work uses multiple layers of recycled paper, charcoal drawings and textiles to form soft sculpture, consciously breaking away from the hard materials of traditional sculpture. I deliberately reject masculine materials and shapes for feminine ones and I obtain this by hand stitching my sculptures together with a needle and thread. This delicate, accessible medium and technique gives me the opportunity to reflect on our precarious relationship with our surroundings and the fragility of life and its future. I am investigating society’s ever growing isolation and detachment from nature and by morphing man into paper I try to minimize this displacement. Essentially paper is derived from trees and are used mainly for communication, for me it is a forged bridge between man and nature. Just like the animistic elements of the world’s ancient mythologies of mysterious deities and gods that took on the form of fauna and flora, I attempt to do the same with my paper characters. By using haunting animistic images from folklore I rely on invoking the viewer’s ancient desire to reunite with an estranged nature.
