Artist's Statement

My work is to embody: to give form to the feeling of living in a body and to ask questions about the body.

The language of the body is touch. I make sculptures that people can touch or that evoke the sense of touch. Aesthetic touch generates different connections, awareness and insights than looking. As someone said, "When you look it's an object, but when you touch it's a journey."

I collaborate with scientists, artists, viewers, educators, curators, and people with visual impairments. My work includes research, advocacy and education about aesthetic touch. I lecture and teach, and am writing a book, Whole Body Seeing: Touch in the Visual Arts.