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Work that feels easy to enter and hard to walk away from. I use clay and video because both are malleable, one in form and one in time. You watch clay float and shift, thumbprints becoming faces, abstract form becoming something almost alive. The meaning finds you slowly, the way memory does. Nothing is ever finished. Nothing is ever fixed.
Where do you find inspiration?Inspiration is the feeling that everything is connected. The book I read last week, the person I met yesterday, the shape my hands made this morning. Maybe it’s delusional. But every time I begin making something, it feels like visiting an old friend. That’s enough.
What would you do with $25,000?I want to make work that exists in a room, not just on a screen. This would help me build a body of work substantial enough to pursue gallery representation, sculptures and videos that can hold space together, that ask to be stood in front of. It’s the difference between having a practice and having a presence.
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