Statement
My practice explores what it means to come back to life in a body that has been numbed- emotionally, socially, physically- and the slow journey of returning to that body. Working across sculpture, performance, and photography, I focus on emotional risk, bodily memory, and the tension between sensuality and cultural containment.
I am a woman, and I often work from a woman’s perspective.
My work deals with the difficulty of expressing female sensuality- how easily it is sexualized, misread, or erased. My goal is to show that energy without it being consumed or distorted, but to visualize it as a part of human nature: vital, creative, embodied energy.
I challenge the reflex to sexualize or flatten expressions of sensuality- both female and male- and confront the tendency to interpret embodied confidence or emotional openness as seduction or invitation.
What you see is vulnerability, authenticity, and embodied aliveness. It’s about standing in the body without apology- not to attract, but to exist and to feel. To exist not only in the rational, logical world, but also in the embodied, sensual one- all without the aim of pleasing anyone.
The photographs are not posed. They show the struggle between what the body has experienced and what is projected onto it- especially the naked, vulnerable body. They hold the tension between the wish to be seen and the wish to disappear.
The sculptures are externalized internal states- objects worn or carried like prosthetic wounds or mythic armor. They give form to what the body couldn’t say. They tell the story.
The tension between embodied aliveness and cultural containment is not resolved. It’s exposed.