Loss, in life, is a teacher.

When personal losses occur one after another (a parent, a home, a lover, a friend), the formerly solid sense of self is exposed as contingent, leading us to question what core identity remains. Grief re-wires us, re-configures what we experience as "self," when the beloved, familiar other disappears.

My current work is a response to losses sustained, initiating what i call the subtraction project.

In the studio, i make objects that reflect inner gestures of subtraction.

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