I combine layers of painted paper in
low relief with details carefully chosen and finely rendered using a scalpel,
to build oddball inquiries into the nature of emotion and human interaction.
Inspired by scientific anatomical studies and diagrams, the pieces utilize
the sterile environments of dissection while omitting the glistening innards
associated with death and disease. In their place, eerie disembodied heads
and hands or figures with cavernous torsos search for a world beyond the glass
case of a natural history museum. Like Vesalius' animated cadavers holding
open flaps of their own skin, the otherworldly beings negotiate a space between
the rational and irrational, between the humorous and the serious, and between
science and emotion. The images are simultaneously clinical and viscerally
powerful, betraying a battle between emotional restraint and an unruly body
and mind.