A shadow is a silhouette of darkness created when an object blocks light. I use the imagery of shadows as a metaphor for loss. A shadow acts as a bridge between a something and nothing. Play and process are important to the emotive content of the work. By hand I trace and cut shadows in order to capture them. Creating thick, porcelain "shadows" I transform something fleeting and non-existent into something permanent.
This transformation also occurs as the process and the content in my work. A drawing of a shadow rendered and manipulated digitally is printed on textured paper, only to become a three dimensional sculpture. This cycle allows for the transition between two and three-dimensional space. Through this analog processing, I connect seemingly unrelated things, and the shadows evolve in recombined patterns.
In this body of work I have been exploring the connections of garden and architectural ornament. A garden is a space that is part domestic and part nature; ornament is found on the edges of things. Both exist as thresholds, forms of borders that go unnoticed. A finial is an ornament that punctuates the apex of a building. It touches the sky yet is firmly attached to a structure planted on the ground. I am fascinated with these things because they act as markers offering rare moments of clear delineation.
--March 2010