Statement

Much of my work after the last few years has had to do with insomnia or with the fears (of guns, of tornadoes, of isolation) which contribute to insomniac musings. The condition of insomnia is in opposition to the state of dreaming — or insomnia at least precludes dreaming — yet the outcome of prolonged lack of sleep is a dreamlike state. My sculptures and installations use repetitive acts or actions (often resulting in the making of a multitude of similar objects) and images and link them to a particular psychological state. My sculptures, made of fragile materials such as sugar or porcelain, are also used as props for photographs and super-8 film loops. My most recent work has gradually evolved out of the work having to do with insomnia, as I started also working with dream imagery and the idea of memory as part of the construction of what we see in dreams. I have been working with some futuristic imagery — or retro-futuristic in that the look of the sculptures and the objects in my photos spring more from the futurism I remember from my childhood than from the current notion of what the future will look like.

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