The soothing touch of mother is replaced with pacifiers, bottles with rubber nipples, rattles and stuffed animals.
Surrogates occupy our sense of touch, filling the mouth and hands with a consoling sensation.
As adults, we continue to seek solace from anxiety in objects, substituting for human contact and interaction. Our tactile engagement with objects follows the pattern of artificial intimacy established as infants. My work examines our obsessive relationship with objects and materials. These objects act as surrogates, replacing human contact with an inanimate dialogue, blending the real with the artificial into a hybrid. Generally, there is an allusion to the body, through implied utility, anthropomorphic elements, or by way of an apparent human absence.