Artist Statement
When faced with the complexities of urban life, I turn to Nature and meditation to renew my understanding of what it means to live fully. Spending time alone in forest areas, experiencing and reflecting upon growth and decay in nature led me to ponder deeply the cycles of life and death, the interconnection of all life forms and the resilience of life forces over forces of destruction. My artmaking is a process of interpreting my experiences in the natural world from within my context as a city dweller.
In my sculptural and installation works I often deconstruct found materials of everyday city life as a metaphor for unraveling the opinions we encounter in contemporary society, the cultural norms that colour our thinking. I fashion these into organic forms reminiscent of natural growth and decay. In other installations I have employed natural materials like dead plants and seeds for the depth of meaning that they invoke.
I am interested in the processes by which creation comes about- projects and objects come into physical being from an unknown non-physical realm and grow organically. My work also concerns the sensuousness of materiality, its ability to evoke a visceral response that can enable the viewer to move from the realm of thought to the realm of feeling. Building up of the sculptures and installations often involve repetitive processes that are meditative.
Ideas of growth and decay, layers of accretion and erosion as markers of time, resilience in the face of adversity, the grace imbibed in adapting organically to circumstances, the beauty of chaos-these are some of the thoughts that form the backdrop from within which my artworks arise.
When faced with the complexities of urban life, I turn to Nature and meditation to renew my understanding of what it means to live fully. Spending time alone in forest areas, experiencing and reflecting upon growth and decay in nature led me to ponder deeply the cycles of life and death, the interconnection of all life forms and the resilience of life forces over forces of destruction. My artmaking is a process of interpreting my experiences in the natural world from within my context as a city dweller.
In my sculptural and installation works I often deconstruct found materials of everyday city life as a metaphor for unraveling the opinions we encounter in contemporary society, the cultural norms that colour our thinking. I fashion these into organic forms reminiscent of natural growth and decay. In other installations I have employed natural materials like dead plants and seeds for the depth of meaning that they invoke.
I am interested in the processes by which creation comes about- projects and objects come into physical being from an unknown non-physical realm and grow organically. My work also concerns the sensuousness of materiality, its ability to evoke a visceral response that can enable the viewer to move from the realm of thought to the realm of feeling. Building up of the sculptures and installations often involve repetitive processes that are meditative.
Ideas of growth and decay, layers of accretion and erosion as markers of time, resilience in the face of adversity, the grace imbibed in adapting organically to circumstances, the beauty of chaos-these are some of the thoughts that form the backdrop from within which my artworks arise.