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Artist Statement
 
Life is about change. Uncontrollable and transformative, our surroundings are full of the energy and possibility of it. The ebb and flow of our lives is affected by it. Our physical, spiritual, and mental travels cause necessary and unstoppable change in our lives and these changes vary dramatically according to our emotions, jobs, family members, and even the weather. A ripple in one of these areas can cause a swell in all the other areas, creating fissures and mountains, which may take us years to explore and interpret.
I explore these places and how our emotional and spiritual lives affects them and us through the use of maps and figures. By using the language and symbols taken from road maps I describe how a physical journey can become spiritual and emotional. I marry images of personal change with abstracted images of landscape and symbols of travel to describe the dynamic relationship between our physical and mental selves.
Our journeys are mapped out behind us in the places we go and the choices we’ve made. Thus creating a journal of our physical and emotional road trip. Our body is the physical ma p of our lives. The scars, tattoos and wrinkles that decorate the surface are the record of its use and abuse, journeys and rituals.
Our skin is only a cocoon, which we shed daily, constantly evolving and changing ourselves.