Artist Statement

I am examining the differences between explaining and exploring disability. 

​​I am interested in how we build knowledge from the objects and spaces we are surrounded by daily. My work starts with spatial relations, the surrounds, the cities, the voices. How do we relate and (make) sense spatially; how do we reconstruct the world, build inner geographies that we navigate for ourselves in the sense making, both of finding our way through a city but also finding our selves; how do we insert our selves within the world, make space for us? These are at the heart of my questions. 

Learning I'm Autistic has become an important opening for me within these questions.  I have often felt like an observer; trying to decode the world around me and the meaning of its objects. This has led me to use found matter that I sculpt into multi-layered experiences, defying a clear meaning, but rather asking questions about that which we take for granted. Seeing how looking at the world from different perspectives opens new possibilities of being for more people.

When we take in the world, we impose personal layers onto it, in an effort to make sense of it. This, in effect, worldbuilds within us, our own personal inner geographies that we constantly navigate and simultaneously alter when making up our minds. I want to explore this landscape, especially to find and challenge my own inherent biases hidden within it, and use it to open conversation and build space for others to address theirs.