face masks series
Altan
The Face Masks series references the neatly-composed masks we present to the world. Yet despite our efforts, the reality of who we are is never quite fully disguised. The darkness inside us peers out, dappling the light into a delicate and profound pattern. |
Nomandla
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Prudence
minotaur series
While the creature of myth has the body of a man and the head of a bull, this minotaur has the body of a woman and the head of the more elegant, and wilder, wildebeest. In different stages of her life cycle, and in various acts of intimacy, she symbolizes innocence, promise, mystery, nature, beauty, raw power, defiance, and decay. She is at once both utterly wild and utterly human. She has been marginalized and pushed into the corners. Her humanity, her vulnerability, and her power are a challenge to the dominant yang culture of linear reductionist independence. She stands at the dawning of a new age. To read more about this series and view the sculptures from multiple angles, with details such as prices and dimensions, click here.
Vanity
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Ariadne reclining
Minotaur 05h00
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Minotaur 01h00
Minotaur 12h00
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Minotaur 23h00
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mythical creatures series
This series brings an element of whimsy to culturally-embedded mythological creatures by flipping the elements of beast and human. In addition to twisting the physical elements, the characteristics of each creature are counter-posed against their traditional depictions. This brings into focus of the notions of strength, beauty, and elegance. Society’s stereotyped understandings of these universal traits is explored and provoked.
The Centaur
Resurrection
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Horus
Mermaid
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exhibition experience
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artist statementArt is a journey into the subconscious. Creating sculptures allows me to explore my own assumptions as well as those presented by society. My work manifests the shadow side of common stereotypes, and draws the unseen and marginalized into the light.
I find inspiration in a life well and deeply lived. All experiences hold value and the potential to learn more about ourselves. I collect up impressions, musings, and snapshots from my ordinary adventures and patch them together to create forms of offbeat beauty. Sculpting both sates and stirs me as it brings me to the place where precision and playfulness meet. I am fascinated by the physical forms of art-making, which features in the appeal of bronze sculpture to me as an artist. The ever-changing challenges of lost-wax casting provoke me to question how and why art is made. |