Informed by my fascination with words and communicative signifiers, my practice revolves around the ways in which written language can be translated into three-dimensional art objects. Exploring the journey between abstraction and the legible, and the journey through and around structures. And consequently how word and letter forms - legible or abstracted - can tangibly take up space, no longer confined to the two-dimensional.
Words you can trip over.
The Conversational Playground: To twist, to tend is an exploratory installation into how art can cultivate community, inviting interaction beyond just the visual, and what it means to physically embody virtues for the better of oneself and society.
My practice is rooted in a desire to cultivate and involve community; both in a temporal and permanent sense. Allowing the works to hold space as sculptures and places for physical – perhaps more childlike – interaction and embodiment, The Conversational Playground serves as a space to hold and host conversation.
My latest sculptural work To twist and tend, from this year's body of work: The Conversational Playground is the product of dedicating the past 4-5 months to the word ‘tend’. Thinking and conversing about it, musing and writing about it. What it means to be tender, to continuously, habitually be tending to things – physical, emotional, relational and in every area of our lives.
So whilst life may not alway be tender, this first installment of The Conversational Playground stands as an invitation to choose to tend, to mend, again and again. Despite, despite, despite.
