About

Like revisiting the past, or stepping into a stranger’s home, my work feels delightfully dangerous. Light shimmers on surfaces of costume jewelry, gilded mirrors, and chandelier crystals inviting closer inspection, while protruding frilled toothpicks, cocktail swords and shards of family china threaten a closer approach. Mounds of pillows, sweaters and empty stuffed-animal pelts are bound, constrained by strings of burnt out lights, and squeezing out a visceral cascade of ribbons and holiday ephemera, but shoots of new growth emerge on nearby surfaces. Unnatural candy-like colors of manufactured plastic toys rub up against the subdued surfaces of antique heirlooms. I interweave these disparate materials, transforming them into intimate experiences teeming with memory, mystery and absurd contradictions.

I collect, modify, and integrate found and foisted objects associated with childhood, warmth, and celebration, assembling them into collective forms that suggest overlooked, internal or invisible life forms and life forces that lurk within our homes, gardens and selves. My sculptures are frequently complexly entangled and densely interwoven, inspired by peripheral microhabitats such as burrows, webs and nests; macroscopic airborne particulates; botanical mutations and abnormal internal growths.

These bewildering multi-media sculptures respond to buried or unacknowledged histories, the inherent complexity of relationships, and the use material objects to fill emotional needs, as well as the strange beauty in our capacity for adaptation, growth and transformation.