marked:Artist Statement

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Mc Garry Guild Gallery, St. John’s Ravenscourt
St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

ARTIST STATEMENT
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Fear as felt by all human beings is culturally and individually variable. Its varied masks are countless. It influences behavior from daily interaction to large-scale international decisions and maps routes of existence, which determines choices and destinations. Fear requires risk assessments based on actual experience, yet in its formless construct yields an erosion of quality of life. It contributes to chaos, death and destruction, tracing devastation on the skin of the planet and on the bodies of the inhabitants, marking all.

This work as an intuitive expression maps the palpable, skin crawling, heart racing, palm sweating prickles of fear traced on the skin of both experience and paralyzing possibility.

Marked by concrete and formless fear, I scar, scratch, nick and engrave a malleable material. The resulting impression is a litany of personal fear tracking the body’s reactions. Images that etch the damp cold skin, inform the clenched muscles, upset the organs and probe the sixth sense, the sub conscious, and the anxious unease that affects behavior.