We exist as body and not body.  We are rooted in these vessels—though them, we perceive and interact in the world—yet we must acknowledge that they are fluid entities. The body as material is comprised of 65% oxygen, 18% carbon, 10% hydrogen, 3% Nitrogen, etc.  We are material, which dissolves into atoms, electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks until becoming nameless.

Within my work I often use the elemental materials of the body and explore how they can be reconstituted sculpturally. How is the body quantified and described?  How can that information be translated conceptually and physically? In this piece, Flight Patterns of Empty Energy, I worked with the elemental materials of the body and reorganized them sculpturally.  I froze the exact amount of water of two bodies into a solid form.  Bit by bit, sliver by sliver, the form melts into a shallow black box, until it becomes liquid.  Completely filling the vessel, the liquid is held by surface tension, creating a reflecting pool.  The pool mirrors a gauze-like fabric suspended above the water, equivalent to the surface area of the skin of two bodies.  Eventually the liquid evaporates and ends its journey from solid, to liquid, to gas.  This piece embodies the desire to contain a moment in time, to freeze one’s love, to face the reality that as material we are ever changing.  Love roots us.  It makes us real.  It is proof of our existence, yet like identity and memory it is fluid, continually changing.

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