Artist Statement:
My work responds to and experiments with materials, rooted in process and intuition. This series began with a desire to incorporate wax from my honeybees. Each piece is a small sculpture—just 5 inches square and 2.5 inches wide. Through the creation of new relationships with color, the exploration of balance, and the manipulation of surfaces, the material transforms. Techniques like burning, impressing, sawing, piercing, hacking, and wrapping allow the material to take on a new life. Additive layers—wrapping yarn, pouring paint, stapling copper—build a tactile, time-marked connection to the materials. These additive and reductive processes evoke my thoughts and emotions, forming a textured, bodily surface. I strive for a balance between the raw material and my vision, between chaos and order, veiling and unveiling, the familiar and the new.