I work with clay to create figurative sculptures that engage the body as a vehicle for emotional experience.
My process involves immersing myself in a subject’s state of mind, embodying their emotion until it is honestly expressed through the form. This ‘felt sense’ activates bodily sensations to achieve somatic resonance.
The resulting figures are expressive yet restrained, holding the tensions in stillness, creating emotional imprints in the body that bypass language. Much like a wound whose impact is felt by the injured, or the dawn whose awe is met by the eye—these works are intended to be encountered viscerally rather than interpreted intellectually.
Even with the conventional nude figure shown here, the emphasis is not only on the sway of her body, but also her gaze and her relaxed lips that ask to be met rather than understood.
