Artwork > Sculpture

I build animal forms with blankets, shirts, fake fur, rags, thread, plastic garbage bags, leather scraps, and glue. These sculptures evoke playful, whimsical characters found in children’s books, but my characters are something different: they are physically and psychologically vulnerable and seem like monstrously overgrown stuffed toys, wounded stray dogs or imaginary friends—misfits whose demeanors both invite and repel. Like mutant craft projects gone ominously awry, their surfaces suggest that the skins of these beings have been torn away through some violent process, exposing their soft insides.

In my sculptures, I explore the murky spaces intersecting empathy, fear, intimacy, humor, repulsion, the desire to touch or connect, and the impulse to back away. Through these works, I hope to expose a complex and contradictory human presence that mirrors our own vulnerability.