BOUND
I FIXED YOU | 2014
I Fixed You examines the relationship between addiction and codependency, focusing on the impulse to care for, repair, or “fix” another person at the expense of one’s own needs.
Discarded railroad ties—aged, worn, and no longer serving their original function—form the structures of the work. Bandages are repeatedly wrapped around and through the heavy wooden forms in a persistent gesture of care and attempted repair. Yet the materials are inadequate to mend what has been damaged.
As the wrapping accumulates, it develops its own weight and volume, forming a counter structure around the wood. What begins as an act of support gradually becomes cumbersome—at times an additional burden rather than a means of repair.
Railroad ties, bandages
TOGETHERNESS | 2012
Togetherness reflects on the dynamics of the nuclear family and the tension between connection and isolation. Four wooden forms, wrapped with elastic bandages, suggest individual figures within a family unit. Though related through material and proximity, each maintains its own physical position—some touching or overlapping, others standing apart.
The rigid wooden structures contrast with the flexible material wrapped around them, suggesting relationships that bind individuals together while not necessarily bringing them closer. The work considers how dependence, intimacy, distance, and individuality can coexist within the same family structure.
Wood, bandages, formed glue
TENDER THOUGHTS | 2012
Tender Thoughts explores vulnerability and containment through the layering of fragile materials. Bandage backing paper creates a translucent ground upon which droplets of pigment suspended in glue gather into irregular forms. Materials associated with binding and healing hold the pigment in place, while the vellum and layered paper remain visibly fragile. The work exists in a tension between what is held together and what remains vulnerable.
Pigment, glue, bandage backing paper on vellum
