What it means to be a body is a focal interest in my work. I see art-making as a way to use forms of embodiment as a space for resistance. I use my weight as a way of mark-making or line drawing. I create one bend at a time in the metal tube using only my physical strength and the engagement of all my limbs. I find my body mimicking the form I intend on creating, using my body to create forms without a template, while relying on the material’s capabilities to lead and determine its final form. At certain moments I use all limbs as agents for manipulation and resistance. The sculptural installation pieces are constructed in fragments and exist as interchangeable entities that playfully investigate the body as disembodied rather than understanding it as a whole.

I employ a feminist approach to a sculptural practice, and art-making becomes a space
where my body and the material meet during a form in transition. I see my female body as a machine that is socially understood as performative and functional. I use industrial materials to reference the interconnectedness of the mechanical and the corporeal. The rawness of materials provided a sense of familiarity while their combinations and altered forms convey sensations that are ambiguous. Steel, latex, and terracotta are relevant to my research, all have a history associated with certain societal uses and performances that carry either historical or societal masculine or feminine connotations. The bareness of these materials refers to the naked human body and the vulnerability that is inherent in that state. I propose a deeper understanding of the self as an organic and ambiguous matter. My sculptures deal with the emotions associated with personal bodily experiences that are accessed through memory. I revisit these experiences through the visceral experiences of making. My sculptures attempt to carry visceral sensations rather than to narrate emotions. I use abstraction as a way to process and understand certain emotions without having to relive them visually, and as a feminist rejection of aestheticizing the female form.