My sculptural installations create metaphors, and layered enigmatic meanings focus on the dynamic between experience and emotional processing in a range of degrees and stages.
The technical processes of Fibers are a metaphor for the emotional processing that occurs within us. Both are predetermined and systematic, but unique through our individuality. The social meaning behind cloth is covering and protection; furthermore, the cultural connotations, specifically of crochet and knit, are warmth and comfort. These ideas are linked to our psychological wellbeing, and the cloth in each piece represents healing.
The forms begin as a potentially penetrating threat to the viewer, forcing the viewer to be aware of what is happening and how they are feeling. Then, as the healing process begins, the forms turn in on themselves, interacting as would your memories and psyche as the mind forces reconciliation. The forms represent experience or trauma. The drama between the cloth and forms that occurs is not a direct parallel of psychological events. Rather, like the unconscious mind, some elements are ambiguous and overlapping. Some forms are wrapped, a provisional layer inherent to the form as a skin; a division between the occurrence and the rest of reality, but not as developed as the cloth. Weaving is a process but is part of the forms, which represent experience. Other forms have the thread woven in as an integrated element signifying the connection between all experiences, traumatic and curative. The final space created using crocheted lace is intended to create the experience of peace, comfort and nostalgia.