Let's Take a Walk #26 Photograph

Born and raised in Ayer, Switzerland in 1960, residing in New York City since 1985. My work explores themes of quest, identity and transcendence through maps of physical and felt experience, primarily within an urban environment. Im intrigued by others routines, recollections and rituals as I chart their journeys toward nourishment, love, bonding and memory over time. Often along the way I happen upon my own personal path, discovering the cusps that unify our lives in their rich complexities and quirks. Here, at the edge of connection, I seek to touch people visually and emotionally.The materials I use to get there depend on what is available at the moment and on what I collect or plan. Paper, glass, charcoal, wax, fabric, metal wire, thread, human milk and human hair (my own or a participants) mesh to yield the textures, layers and measurements that form the spine of my work. The result is a body of conceptual documents that use text, sound, cartography, video and organic stuff to depict precise landscapes of completed odysseys and personal histories.Im drawn to both the spiritual and the mundane; I like to tease out the transformation from one to another, and back again. My installations and performances are delicate, intricate, multi-dimensional worlds that radiate ethereal movement, expressing both the cyclical and fragile nature of life and yet can also be unsettling and disturbing. They invite the viewer to become part of the narrative space, where drawings combine with video images recordings and text tells of longings that can be, and are, fulfilled.