Artist Statement
As an artist I am interested in how we perceive and construct reality, identity and society. I see contradiction as inherent in any attempt to understand it all, our selves, the universe, everything. I am influenced by artists such as James Turrell as well as by mathematics such as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. I explore sculptural as well as digital and robotic mediums.
In my work I playfully explore these contradictions through a conceptually based critical practice blending sculpture and interaction. My material sensitivity draws people in and through focusing people’s attention on points of contradiction I aim to encourage people to re-examine their beliefs.
In my first year at Bauhaus-University Weimar, this theme manifested itself in my Snow Globe project. We all believe that the world is external to us but Snow Globe contradicts this belief by showing us a picture of an internalized reality that is inside out, upside down, and backwards.
