Artist Statement

My artwork is based on a performative approach to multi-media sculpture. My artistic practice has been highly
influenced by the merger of technology with the visual arts, which occurred in the late 1940's, as well as my
personal interest in holistic theory. The result is a hybrid of performance, video, sound and sculpture,
placing an emphasis on psychological process expressed through physical incidents.

Inspired by the performance art movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s, my early performance work utilized
the body either as raw material or as an object of movement through space. Ranging from experiences of
abjection to trance states, I performed durational pieces in reference to various aspects of incarnation.
In other early performance work I concealed the features of the body and utilized performance as a means
of creating movement.

In 2001, I began to fuse my performance with video. Rather than perform live in a gallery space and video
tape the performance for documentation purposes, I structured my performances for the video media,
prerecording, editing and then installing the video in various gallery settings. My use of multi-media
techniques is intended to engage the audience through the appeal of its accessibility and to urge the
audience into an internal, physiological response. My use of video focuses the viewers’ attention on the
object of concern and provokes visceral experience through sound and action. My orientation towards
performance art, live or pre-recorded, provides the audience a focus object with which they can identify.
I find the presence of the physical body and the functions it performs have the capacity to emphasize the
relationship between the flesh, the external world and internal psychological processes.