WHERE SOUL MEETS BODY
The question of our own spirituality, spiritual nature, belief system or idealogical perspective is not for an artist to dictate, nor for a third party to direct the observer’s reasoning. It is an open dialogue between the internal you and the external you. This body of sculptures featuring allegorical forms can be used in order to dissect pseudo-spiritual experiences between objects and universals. Similar to a statement of James Lee Byars (b. 1932 - 1997): “an encounter of the personal and universal.”
“Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.”
- Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1977
These forms suggest meaning through motifs and subjects pulled from the supernatural plane, the non-physical realm. Within the framework of art and creative expression, personal experience can be unnoticed or unclear without its broader context; however through my understanding of semiology, symbolisms, and ideological structures, meaning and association can collide into layers of conceptual substance. These layers can function physically and psychically, towards a minimal and conceptual sculptural practice.
The body of work presented here are created through personal experience and experimentation, allowing process, metamorphosis, and material to guide creation and object iteration. Each sculpture can be viewed individually and as a collective whole. When experienced together, the suggestive narrative structure contains an infinite loop of middles, beginnings, and ends that constantly, and invariably fold inwards: “where soul meets body”.
