Artist’s Statement

Coming into being, falling out of being, containment and openness, consuming and being consumed, this wrestling match between being in and out of control is what fuels my work.

I am a maker and curator of objects and shadows, a choreographer of space, a collector of sounds. My work embraces silence, vulnerability, and disorientation. I look for connections to the familiar, but pull the rug out from under it. Working with multiple sculptural mediums and found objects, sound, lens and time-based media, light, and language, I play on disrupting the familiar, pairing order with chaos, engineering inter-dependence and balance. 

Disruption and discomfort interest me in the process of transforming environments, forcing one out of the realm of familiar into the liminal zone, replacing predictability with uncertainty. Ruminating on the efficacy of words, the distortion of language, the randomness of understanding, and the never-ending misdiagnoses of communication, I incorporate writing into my work to push the dialectic of discourse. 

I create spaces for people to have their own experiences. Each person's encounter is particular. The space becomes the intermediary through which some memory is stimulated. The dynamic of moving through an installation with others while simultaneously experiencing the very personal and shifting dynamic of stability and instability is where I aim to engage my viewers.

No matter what is around you, you have to take care of your own house.