Artist Statement

I make work about our impact on the environment by creating interconnected drawings, sculptures, and installations that move between abstraction and representation. I use dramatic scale shifts in my work to create a sense of flux — a state of simultaneously becoming and devolving, much like the cities we inhabit. Vociferous documentation of urban spaces combined with study of ecology, archeology, and fantastical 18th century architectural renderings inspire my practice. 

Protective plastic netting for glass bottles, cardboard packing and debris transform into reimagined monuments that mirror the fragility of the urban landscape. Each sculpture pairs sensitively crafted objects with familiar found elements that appear dislocated from their source and mysterious. Intentionally composing these relationships, I express the physical environments we navigate while alluding to the metaphysical.

While each part may be intricately beautiful or conversely utterly mundane, an expansion occurs as I place pieces in relation to one another. Themes such as excavation, archaeology, architecture, and the residue of human activity emerge. Inspired and provoked by my surroundings, the irony implicit within hulking architecture, so easily destroyed and remade, enraptures me, and  infuses  into my work. I build structures with no anchors and arrange fragmented elements, highlighting the absence of an integral part, where the sculpture is on the brink of collapse.