Flower

The work I create is formed through fabricating metal objects; transforming my ideas and experiences into physical realities. Often I use themes, sources, or objects I can trace back to my own personal history, which gives me an ancestral connection. This sculpture may be used as a table, a bench, and a bed.

The "flower" is something I grow, research and observe. A flower can symbolize a plethora of ideas including birth, life, love and death. A flower is simultaneously simple and complex, and can live for a day or for weeks. The flower in this sculpture, as a vital centerpiece, is a fundamental image of food. Supporting this landscape-like table is an architectural structure that resembles a house and a necessity for shelter. A physical support to this piece is an archetypal dress form, which is symbolic of clothing.

The work I create is formed through casting (chocolate, bronze, glass) and fabricating (wood, metal) objects; transforming my ideas and experiences into physical realities. I have an interest in the orchestration of a variety of materials and search for contrast between the organic and geometric, the abstract and representational, and the raw and refined.