I fix people.
I break them – or pierce them, or bend them – and then make them new.
Not better, just new.
As I build, I think about sexuality, spirituality, politics, abjection, human needs, mythology, and history.
My building process focuses on the creation, and manipulation, of the human body; I doctor human figures. By integrating mixed media into my art, I transform a figure into a fetish.
A fetish captures things - feelings, fears, beliefs, anxieties - that we don’t understand, from sex to saints: art, women, children, money, relics and commodities. People need fetishes; we always have.
There are powerful things in the world that I don’t understand. Through art, I find ways to relate what I do know to my own experiences. The physical and occasionally violent nature of my work lends itself to a reconsideration of what it means for an object to have power, and how that power can be destructive, subversive, deceptive, or profoundly good.