Biography

My work investigates how form emerges through direct engagement with material. I am interested in what happens when matter is pressed, stacked, bent, or aligned—when instability calls for response and structure develops through adjustment. Across series, the sculptures begin with physical negotiation: a hand meeting resistance, a weight seeking balance, separate elements testing coexistence in space.

The work is not representational. It is exploratory. Forms are discovered rather than designed, arriving through manipulation and refinement until they settle into equilibrium. A composition resolves when tension gives way to coherence—when the structure becomes calm and self-supporting. These moments of balance are not imposed; they are found.

Play is central to this inquiry. In the studio, play is not diversion but a serious mode of thinking enacted through touch. It allows curiosity to lead and imagination to direct action without predetermined outcome. Each decision belongs to the moment of making. Through this process, I test how materials behave, how forms relate, and how order can emerge from provisional beginnings.

In a culture increasingly defined by productivity and measurable outcomes, I assert the value of play as a generative and necessary condition. The sculptures advocate for the freedom found within making itself—the freedom to explore without instruction, to respond without prescription, and to construct meaning through embodied inquiry. Form becomes the record of that freedom.