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Rehearsal for Repair, 2025
Paper
24 X 24

In this series of twelve works, I explore the relationship between presence and disappearance — how the body can be extruded, abstracted, and reshaped across mediums.

These objects started out as photographs from a series I did years ago. The original photos are in my past work photography section. I began by painting large pieces of cloth, then hung them and performed in front of them — capturing that performance as the piece itself. Later, I took those images and transformed them into paper sculptures.

The process is one of breaking and reconfiguring — pulling the work apart to return it in a new form. The resulting sculptures are ghostly bodies that hover between image and object, surface and depth.

I like how space is considered here — the space an object occupies versus the space a two-dimensional image occupies. I think one feels more psychological.