Aluminum bottles are a vessel. Playing on the notions of being, “bottled up” and “message in a bottle”- my transformation has made these phrases verbatim. The process of carving into the metal and embedding images inside. Then creating a window that is blurry or clear in order to abstract or expose. My work is constantly at odds with itself as to conceal or reveal. Nonetheless- the image; the feeling, is there. Much like we are as humans yearning to express ourselves but feeling the weight of a patriarchal society limiting our expression, challenging our true nature.
