Artist Statement

I mimic your movement, you mimic mine, I close my eyes because im a little embarrassed. I open them hoping your gaze is still on me. Last week we were here too, I remember I slipped on a puddle of beer on the dance floor. Later you mimicked my fall—on all fours, both of us laughing. I shake my head, my hair flicks side to side. Im not sorry. My platforms are an inch too big for my feet. There is a hole in every pair of sock I own from the friction my oversized shoe permits. I wear them out anyway. I move as much as I can, and when I dance I feel a belonging, a needlessness to explain myself.

I began making work as a way to produce moments of synchronicity, the feeling of being completely received by another person. Investigating that desire taught me that total reception isn't possible, and that I was, in part, entertaining my own longing for unconditional love. What interests me now is what remains once that ideal falls away: small, partial moments of permeability in everyday perception. Someone laughing quietly through their nose at the same instant you do. Two people carrying furniture up a staircase, each grunting, adjusting to the other's weight. Dancing. Through sculpture, sound and wearables I prod at my own desire for permeability, with earnestnest, other times with a raised eyebrow.