I create these intricate pieces as a way to redefine human bodies in connection with environments. Influenced by magical realism, biosurrealism, and biomedical art, these sculptures capture a sense of hope for bodies replete with life. They're playful surfaces represented in acts of regeneration.

I'm drawn to anatomical art because organs are often sites of conflict in our embodied lives. Our loved ones are lost to cancers of organs; our children are born with differences that make them vulnerable; our organs have been surgically removed, yet their absence is forever felt; chronic illness has impaired the function of parts of our bodies...The list goes on because organs are mostly invisible to us, even when they are the subject of so much attention and worry. The determination of organs to remain invisible to us is what makes them such compelling art objects.

I'm struck by the role that art can play in acts of bodily reclamation. Art can change the way that we see the parts of ourselves that are otherwise invisible. And that hope-fueled process is something I feel very honoured to be a part of.