From All Sides 2023

For several years now, news media reports have been showing the destruction that is happening to our planet. Daily, there are more catastrophic meteorological events, as well as alarming statistics regarding glacial melting rates, wildfires, years-long droughts, disappearing habitats, and much more. Our safe food and water supply is imperiled on many fronts through pollution, poor infrastructure, war, politics, over consumption. The list is endless. So many humans have contributed to the crisis either actively or through ignorance, not knowing or caring about how their daily habits contribute to the current and immanent crisis. In choosing elements of nature as a theme, my sculptures reflect a concern regarding the effects of climate change. Trees expresses a possible future of desiccation, decay, and destruction. The future is colorless, hard, harsh, and lifeless. Hopefully, viewers of my work will have a visual reference that will influence individual and collective action against climate change.

I loved Kipling's "The Jungle Book". It was an interesting challenge to include elements of the story in a round format as if you were on a trail watching the story unfold.

These sculptures incorporate found objects (metal, shells, plastic toys) along with my hand made clay figures and address family dysfunction.

My work is mainly figurative or semi-figurative. I use positions and body lines in my sculptures to share my emotions and my understandings about life. Steel is a very interesting material, I like bending and rounding rods using my strength only (no heat, no hammer !). Let your eyes follow the lines of this positive spiral, and feel what part of your journey relates to this. The figurative character suspended gives you a key to relate. Concentration like an internal introspection before jumping in projects, social life, new steps, this is up to you. But definitely my work intend to highlight the fact that we should concentrate on ourself before engaging with the world.

I always had a love for creating sculptures out of alabaster stone. I worked with direct carving, finding inspiration in the coloration and the flow of the stone itself. My sculptures reveal the female form conveying a sense of movement with the subtle details of flowing fabric. My visions emerge from the stone as I delve deeper into its core and only truly know what will appear with the final polishing. I enjoy sharing my art and insist that people touch ans caress them as they learn what can be created from within a stone.