Through my work I expose the quiet and hidden places that exist among the chaos of our everyday lives. When I explore these places, the shadows and recesses of our physical and psychic experiences, I am confronted with my own mortality and the beauty that surrounds our transient lives. Carl Jung said “when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.” My current work explores this idea through the slow, continual action of disintegration of forms and materials that are typically thought of as additive or creative by nature. Using clay, seeds, stains and other organic materials I slowly draw out a process of continual erosion and dispersal that is meditative and reflective. By stopping and allowing the time to experience the falling away of matter I can take in simultaneously the beauty and reality of forces that seem contradictory. This is an opportunity both in the making and experience of the work to acknowledge that which might otherwise be ignored or denied. It is my hope that this work will offer the same moment of meditation and reflection for the viewer as it does for the maker.