Curious, absorbed, amazed, naïve, bewildered, disturbed, unnerved and discomforted…I am fascinated by the repetition of daily life.

Repetition that transforms activity into sacred ritual. My work draws from ethnographic devises imersion, observation, participation and informant interviews. I use a wide range of media to interpret, process and explore my experiences of the culture that surrounds me.

At first, repetitive movements appear familiar and insignificant yet put them under a microscopic lens and they shift into an exotic realm: we see the uncanny and the absurd.

Taking the everyday as a subject, the work orbits themes of  identity and it engages with its inherently political and psychological dimensions.

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Key elements of anthropological text inform my work. I consider

Arnold Van Gennep's three stage model of ritual structure: Preliminal, liminal and postliminal phases and Victor Turner provides a useful description of liminality and communitas to understand social collectivity of ritual. The ritual process leads participants through stages that transforms their identities and creates new social bonds. I use these interpretations to observe my surrounding culture: Grooming, brushing teeth and morning commutes. By examining everyday ritual we uncover great mythologies that form our daily experience.

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