I am inspired to dismember social conventions. Once these limbs of conventions are acknowledged they become a new language. My personal experience and observation of the social environment long for change. Potential changes occur when the imagination grows to embrace — what can be, opposed to what is allowed or what is considered unacceptable. I always anticipate room for social change, awareness and power shifts.
Through multimedia and interdisciplinary artistic practices, I am motivated to present the viewer with an experiential circumstance. Experience is a personal or universal activity that all humans encounter, by choice or by other means.
Observations of human relationships, human attachment to objects, animal and human behavior, are sources when creating work. I want to encourage people to be activley engaged—to step away from their computers for experience, art, and life in real time. When considered a tool the computer is a pathway to new relationships with objects, metaphors and physical contact. This idea is known as physical computing. The computer should not be a substitute for human encounter and sedentary amusement.
The disciplines that I converse with in my practice are computer science, multiple mediums in visual art, and sociology. My work is concerned with acknowledging
new perspectives for seeing and interacting with the environment and each other. My validation of personal experience, my use of narrative and language influenced by multiple disciplines situates my video, print, and installation work in the scope of Feminist theory.
The magical and fantastical are alive inside everyday objects and mundane social interactions. My installation work invites the viewer to conjure personal meaning trapped within daily object. By reframing objects and displacing common areas, the mundane social space is reframed —challenged. People connect through memory, and with installation, I am pursuing the creation of a new 'memory place'. A new memory place can overwrite old memories, where becoming aware of new perspectives to question social conventions takes priority.
Memories are awakened through encounters with objects and other stimulation — I am interested in changing memories, the rewriting of trauma, the recovery, and the need for new perspectives. The everyday object is embedded with personal history linking people to memory. When objects and actions are reframed in an interactive art environment, the memories that the objects trigger can manifest into new memories. This manifestation is made possible by the addition of interactive elements stimulating multiple human senses. When we were young, we were taught that we have five sensations. I am certain that we have more.