My work is entwined within the natural world. Investigating ritual, folklore and craft, my sculptures emerge from locally foraged materials such as grasses, weeds and vine.
Intuition is the driving force in my work. To be guided by intuition is to surrender to an unfolding process. This process attempts to mimic these materials - grass, weed, vines - natural and intuitive directions of growth, like roots sprawling from a seed.
Inspired by pagan figures and traditional folk costumes, this work aims to nourish and gently propagate the boundaries and thresholds of ‘self’.
Historically, in religious or cultural practice, this extension of ‘self’ may have been cultivated within performance, ritual, or rites of passage. The loss of these practices in our modern lives’ hints at a broader systemic numbing to our place within community, and our ability to mark and define the chapters in our lives.
The costume, then, becomes a vessel to examine these disintegrating practices, asking the viewer: how we make sense of our lives in the modern world, without these practices to mark, define and deepen our time on earth.
