ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice is grounded in scientific inquiry, with a special affinity for microbiology. I’m fascinated by the tools and techniques of the laboratory, the process of knowledge generation, and the historical trajectory of the scientific aesthetic. I contemplate these systems through mixed-media sculpture and installation that explore experimental materials like bioplastics and (non)living bacteria and fungi. I continually revisit and question the relationship between the knower and the known, calling attention to the bonds built through rigorous research.
I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with several microbiologists on various projects, and I’m always impressed by their eagerness to chase a thread into the void—a sensation I’m deeply attuned to as an artist.
My ongoing research centers on how engaging with scientific visual language through a sculptural practice can offer new avenues for information delivery. I am keenly interested in the artwork as an epistemic object — one that holds knowledge rather than merely a direct illustration of it. Strategic abstraction, inherent in my artistic practice, can be used as a tool not to obscure but to enhance knowledge generation and provoke new forms of understanding.
