I am a body creating actions and images. Central to my work are repetition, pattern, and meditation as a reparative act, expressed through the accretion of marked objects into concise states of order. My obsessive movements invoke an acute sense of time and duration. I draw, as a ritual, every day; my drawings take several weeks to several months to complete. My methods encourage diligence, patience, stability, and consistency. Through drawing and dance I transcend into a dream-like meditation where the mundane becomes profound. The resulting images suggest natural and biological forms emanating specificity and sacred geometry. The images draw from spiritualism, Kabbalism, and my dance and Yogic practice. I try to thoughtfully integrate cultural ideas outside of traditional western philosophies and consider iconic, abstract, as well as craft-like forms. I am inspired by the relationship between text and textile, religious reliquary, and "tribal" arts. My drawings are symbolic maps, plotting a course from the inner workings of the body to the stars in the heavens. I make these images to assuage my fears and to temper the paradoxes of science, my biographical history, and the mysterious world we navigate. My drawing and dance choreographies explore the liminal and circuitous pathways of physiology, biology, and psychology, where mental order and disorder are often at the crux.
