Embodied experience, a living, dynamic relationship between the body and its surroundings, is key to our perception. In contemporary life, we tend to remove ourselves from the natural world, attempting to free the body from its organic, biological limits through technology. In this context, the body can become disenfranchised rather than the body as a key to perceiving and knowing. Exclusion of the body reduces the power of experience. We need to remind ourselves that our experiences are embodied.

This work looks to dynamic patterns occuring within the body. Patterns observed within the body were mapped using the technology of ultrasound imaging. These scanned images of the body, not readily available to the naked eye, reveal a sense of aliveness on a certain day and time existing in space. This technology shows how light operates in the viscose medium of the body. Paintings of the mapped image of oil and charcoal on wood panel surfaces are attached to a curved wood structure. They establish a passage to be experienced.

As an artist and an architect, it is my desire to have my work acknowledge the part that embodied experience plays in perception and meaning. My interest in making paintings more like experiences than objects led me to speculate about the relationships between the artist, the artwork and the perceiver. Instead of painting emphasizing only the visual aspects of perception, painting installations include the body, space and time in perception. Study paintings and models allow possibilities to be explored. The resulting work merges aspects of the disciplines of painting, sculpture and architecture.

"Models of Proposed Installations"
wood structures with oil on paper
12" w x 6" d x 6" h typical

"Embodiment"
wood structure with oil on wood panel
installation of 3 structures each of 24' w x 8' h