Wynn Newhouse Awards

Statement

The original impulse which brought me to art making was a drive to understand what I could not see. My neurological disorder is inherently invisible. There is no scan to perform which can reveal the source of my disorder. I felt permeated throughout by an entity I could not see or point to. I wanted to isolate the disorder from the "me" part of myself. I wanted it to be separate, the chaos from my order.

I first made sculptural objects to fill the void, to make understandable and visible the invisible within. As my curiosity about the organism matured, I became curious about the commingling of order and chaos that occurs in a living body. My work helps me to better understand our organismhood as well as that of other forms of life.

I have a hereditary neurological disorder which presents as migraines, involuntary movement, neuralgia and sensory disfunction.

The look inside place 1 digital print 32" x 14"	The look inside place 2 digital print 43" x 14"	Plastic primordial soup 1 color photo prints 88" x 68"	Plastic primordial soup 2 color photo prints 128" x 32"
Plastic Abiogenesis 1 color photo print 8" x 10"	Plastic Abiogenesis 2 color photo print 8" x 10"	Swell/Say yarn, polyester stuffing 156" x 36" x 24"	Spine yarn, polyester stuffing 72" x 48" x 36"