ARTIST STATEMENT

 One of my most enjoyable memories as a little girl was the gift of a kaleidoscope. Carefully putting it up to my eye and lightly twisting the tube with my fingers the world exploded into a million shards of unexpected shapes and dazzling colours. The kaleidoscope allowed me to constantly shift, rearrange and reorganize my perception of the world whenever I wished.

 Because of that vivid recollection my work is a combination of chaos and control with fluctuating repeated patterns. Meticulously drawn steel girders,push and compress the lines to the edge of the paper. The thick and thin drawn ropes of monochromatic grays encircle, knit and bind the industrial and organic shapes together and pull them back into the drawing. All the elements merge to create patterns that tumble, topple and spiral through the spectrum of blues.  I have spent the past year searching for an emotional balance in my art practice, shifting back and forth between sculpture and drawing,using the power of my  conscious and unconscious memories.Each organic shape, and drawn line becomes part of the  kaleidoscope memory of my youth.