Visual Poems, Solo Exhibition, South PlaIns College Fine Arts Main Gallery, Curated by Kristy Kristinek, Levelland TX, March-April.

2023

ARTIST STATEMENT:

A Sculpture is a Visual Poem. A flickering feeling, a fleeting moment, met with an omnipresent tension. An uneasiness sets into my stomach, and I create. Cut, hammered, forged, welded, and painted steel fabricating my material, just as I fabricate the fiction. Creating a new lexicon made up of a synthesis of wild animals and domestic objects of an American household.

The animals are caught in human habitats. Their features echoed in the furniture they are tethered to. These animals serve as metaphors for human characteristics and depict how strange the human animal is. Our comfort creates the confines within which we live. The biggest barrier being within our minds. Under every roof, every situation exists, the light, the dark, the good, the bad. We choose how we live our lives.