Artist Statement

Traditionally a medical expert is the interpreter of scans and images related to the body, their interpretation becomes our reality.  I view my own work as an unknown medical scan.  My collages convey information to the viewer, like a MRI, X-Ray, CT Scan and PET Scan, and a professional is needed to give it meaning.  I invite the viewer to approach the work with their own lived bodily experience and infer its meaning through their own expertise.  Modern medicine aims to understand everything about our bodies and break it down into quantifiable data.  We live in a body-centric and body-conscious society that attempts to find a median for which all our bodies must relate to.  What if that is impossible and the body is interpreted as an individual and for the individual?