ARTIST STATEMENT I work from an embodied sense of continuity, where there is no boundary between self and world. I feel myself as currents of water, as moss breathing with the forest, as the subtle pulse running through trees and animals alike—a living field from which form emerges. From this knowledge, I encounter vivid visions through dreams, movie reel downloads, meditation, and the liminal state between rest and consciousness.

What seemingly arrives spontaneously, asking to be made tangible, is responded to not with intention or plan, but with attention. I allow them to guide my hands as imperatives, not propositions, into material being.

Using birch bark, a material that exists first in one state within the forest. Through an innate and attentive process, I construct freestanding and wall-hung sculptures that challenge our relationship to art, the natural world, and ourselves. The material carries its own memory, tenderness, and strength. I work deliberately and intuitively, honoring process, detail, and the quiet intelligence of natural forms.

Love is the central force in my practice: love for nature, for making, and for the self as a vessel through which something larger moves. The sculptures emerge as presences rather than objects, carrying warmth, tenderness, and strength. Encountering the work is meant to evoke the feeling of discovering a candlelit home deep in the woods: the scent of moss in the air, a fire nearby, and a sense of belonging that dissolves the illusion of separation.

Embedded within each swirling shape or surface of laboriously peeled bark, we are confronted with the act of transformation. This is not symbolic but direct. This experience of material mutation is inseparable from self-transformation, a process of creation intended to inspire healing and growth. Pulling from lived experiences, I reshape the material, and I understand myself as simultaneously transforming, becoming something new while remaining whole.

My sculptures invite us to take pause and remember our own connection to the living world, moving away from an unconscious existence. It asks viewers to feel what it is like to change form, to soften the boundaries of identity, and to remember that becoming is always possible.