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By combining approachable, childlike traits and symbolic, surreal imagery, my sculptures explore the nature of divergence. I am utilizing the figure/figurine to investigate the interface of opposing qualities: instinct vs. reason, personal growth vs. stagnation, and beautiful innocence vs. dangerous naiveté.
Hummel figurines have always appealed to me because of their complete lack of confrontation. By fusing the cute and approachable features of the Hummel with suggestive and surreal imagery, I am challenging the viewer's ability to relate to my figurines.
The grotesquely ticklish creatures that have been emerging from my clay are also a response to my love of childhood stories such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Many of the fantastic beings from those stories are personifications of human fears, desires, weaknesses, and joys. My imagination is captivated by the idea of our emotions existing as creatures that inhabit our subconscious.
There is an ambiguity that I strive for in my work. This ambiguity blurs the line between reality and fantasy, human and animal, nature and rationale. The in-between of these characteristics is the terrain that intrigues me most. It is where my creatures frolic: the interstice where corruption and innocence abide.
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