Shape Shifters

The materials I use speak of the home, the body, and labour. This series of works speak of transformation, like the women in myths who change form rather than return. My sculptures live in that space of becoming, where the domestic turns mythic and the ordinary reveals its power to transform. Across mythologies the female figure rarely returns after taking on a mission. Male heroes frequently return triumphant. Women in myth transform into birds, stars, smoke, rivers or beings that ascend or flee and do not return to the same ground they left. Their departures are not framed as conquest but as metamorphosis, liberation, or loss. I am drawn to that difference. What does it mean to fly, not to return, and to exist in that threshold between the domestic and the transcendent. These works are made using domestic materials and construction materials we take for granted in the homes we build and occupy. Some are painted with wine, nodding to rituals relating to service and sacrifice in mythological stories and domestic settings.