Oil on aluminium

50 x 60 cm

For my Shadow Sculpture series, I borrow objects that are invested with their lenders’ memories and emotions. I interview each lender about their attachment to their object and then create a shadow with it. Although I compose the shadow with the lender’s story in mind, ultimately it becomes a detached, autonomous entity, no longer anchored to its casting object.
Reproduced in my paintings, each shadow becomes a manifestation of my exchange with the lender. I build my paintings in flat, transparent layers, sculpting with color until the shadow takes on an expression of ‘suchness’ and becomes an intricately detailed, solid form.