Vacillating between reality and fantasy allows me to create a natural dialogue between unexpected items/ideas. I want to know how would the transition from human into goat, horse, wolf, bull etc., actually feel and look? What happens when I reconfigure and shift the scale of familiar body parts? As a child I voraciously read science fiction, carefully studied through anatomical diagrams in our old encyclopedia and occasionally found porn/dirty joke books. I created my own ideas about reality including how things work and their construction, giving me a degree of control in an unpredictable world.

The sculptures are allegorical self-portraits, intentionally distorted for emotive emphasis and a desire for the fantastic. Each piece represent periods of time coupled with my creative and scientific interests in fiction, music, pop culture, film, and origination myths. My search for the sublime coincided with elements of the grotesque in my life, combining into unusual forms that play with abstractions of femininity and vitality. Choosing to reshape the body reflects a delight in making allegory, but the making of monsters is a comment on a misguided search for perfection and humankind’s tendency to make mistakes. Grafting elements of dissimilar species onto the human form also demonstrates a detached curiosity about the bizarre appearance of internal organs and their perceived functions. The human body is displaced retaining ranges of recognizable features-but what remains behind is an interest in the dispersal and fertilization of the feminine mystique.