Artist's Statement

            Memories form, memories fade and memories are lost.  Small cavities of emptiness replace memories that have drifted away, where they then spread like thin cracks on the surface and diverge to form a void.  Within the hollows of these voids, perplexities in mental and physical conditions emerge. Such perplexities of the void have captured my attention.  With this body of sculpture, defining and embodying the mental void within a physical presence is my ultimate goal.

               Methods have been instituted to aid in the creation and definition of the non-entity.  Skins are developed to encase a void, enabling one to see the unseen.  Fluid and static movements through the pliable, porous, and solid materials construct and deconstruct the voids. Scales in the work shift as the severity of the voids increase and decrease.  With repetition, I find myself searching for the missing piece as I continuously circle the void.  Such voids become an obvious recurrence throughout my sculptures, and the negated space is as significant as the physical elements themselves.

              Vacant elements in the sculpture are independent from the physical, despite the fact that they are, in reality, solely dependent on the physical.  Symbiotic relationships have been forged.  The sculpture does not exist without the empty space, just as the void does not exist without the sculpture. Stability between the two is a delicate but strong balance.

              Beneath the surface is an endless exploration into the numbness of being lost and standing still.  Strange comfort is found in this empty space, and thoughts of nothing coil together, circling each other to create an even larger void.  Sleep escapes and the stare of the void, though empty, is always watching and always there.  Within these hollows I have searched for silence, but have found nothing but an intensified sleepless seeing – my view of the void.  Seeing nothing and watching everything, the insomniac continues to gaze, listening to the sound that is never truly there.

             Dreams and death become dimensions of the same thing as the voids are now looking outwards.  Persistence in circular forms holding the emptiness of a voided space memorize each and every minute of their own conception.  The absent have won and the voids never wane.  A memory is lost.  All that remains is its residue and the endless hold of its space.  This becomes the non-entity, the void, a broken space, a gaping hole of what once was.