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These dynamic forms synthesize sensuality and strength. They are site-specific sculptures for the body, and offer an intimacy with the person who adorns them. There is an interaction which enhances and transforms the figure, confronting the wearer and the viewer.  This sculpture protects while tempting; it extends from and melds with the natural forms of the body. Referential to that which is both ancient and futuristic, natural and industrial in their abstractions, the work teases with a provocative tactility. Bold symmetrical, bio-morphic, and bas-relief forms, the work contains intimate and intriguing "worlds": crevices and folds, bulges, curves, and sharp and aggressive spikes. They are simultaneously enticing and repulsive, voluptuous bordering on grotesque.

 

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