Sculpture
My work is about relationships.
In terms of materials, my work consists of an interplay between sculpture and photography. The sculptural aspect provides us with a thing – a solid object which, though having symbolization, is what it is: metal, glass, wood, etc. On the other hand, a photograph is the “residue” – to borrow Giacometti’s term – of a thing. A photograph is taken presently to preserve a present for the future, but is viewed presently as past. The chemistry and paper are vehicles used to realize the submerged undulations of what is not present or not solid; as in the case of a sun-dial, the shadow is the thing.
While sculpture presents us with something that can be touched, photography is, to a great extent, about “lack of touch”. The poignancy of a photograph is the realization that what is presented can never be held. The combination of sculpture and photography creates a tension between past and present, thing and shadow, touchable and untouchable.
The subject matter I work with is that of intimacy, which grows out of the solid materials used and the untouchable stasis of the past as presented in the photographs. My works, like heirlooms, are the cessation of a crumbling. So thoroughly soaked in the past, the present work is a sponge which never completely dries as dear ones sit, stand, and embrace in frozen transitoriness; a longing for a certain immortality. The works are the embodiment of a longing to hold loves close.
