Show me what it feels like to fall in love. How do you physically portray sadness? How can I express with my body what I am feeling right now? We understand everything with our bodies, mainly through touch and sight. At birth I was placed in an incubator, blindfolded and naked, denied the use of sight which forced me to experience the world through my other senses. This physical memory haunts my performances and installations. I grew up in a place where I did not physically resemble the people around me, an experience that made me hyper aware of my body and appearance in relation to my surroundings.

I understand things through physical interaction, either direct interaction or indirectly through mimicry. My installations and performances offer the viewer the same opportunity to connect through interaction. The work explores the body’s ability to communicate and connect through sound, written language, dance, gesture... I portray emotions using the body. Sadness drags behind me in the form of a sixty foot long skirt slowing my movements to a crawl, love turn my dress into a bag allowing me to be picked up and carried away.

The work is ongoing, tracing my development. Each new person, location, material and experience I am presented with affects and changes its course. Every opportunity to connect with new surroundings and people offers a chance to adapt and develop, and ultimately rediscover self.