MEDICANT
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BREACH
ARTIST STATEMENT
I must, to begin, accept that my life will always be haunted
by the specters of loss. And so the objects I create begin at sites of memory
and of mourning - a cemetery, the home of a loved one, or a historical site to which
I can connect emotionally. I collect earth and objects from
these spaces, sometimes leaving what I can in their place and sometimes
incorporating the sacrifice of irreplaceable objects into my work. These rituals constitute my creative process: they are confrontational and cathartic, they are based firmly in the physical world through a tangible relationship with place but also inhabit my mental world, and the beauty or art that they create are incidental.
