Artist Statement

Working on a piece is an emotional, mental, physical, and oddly spiritual release, all happening separately and at the same time.
I know that I am part of it, but its as if I am a medium. I tend to experience things too much for a while before I begin working — sometimes losing sense of bounderaries between myself and others or the concrete and the abstract.

My work is as much the process as the final product. Making each piece is a lot like a storm. At first, when getting everything together, it is pretty quiet and relaxing yet I am aware I will be getting lost and exhaustingly focused in some kind of marathon. I am both excited and somehow dreading it at the same time. If I don't work straight through in an almost compulsive and instinctive binge until something is mostly completed the piece won't come together. It is as if my mind gets in the way and censors out things that it shouldn't. It might look more balanced, but it is less pure or honest.

The works are definitely different things to different people and
I do like this. I also like that people strongly feel something for
the work, whether it is good or bad; the gray area is rarely comfortable to me.

Laura Kaplan