About

 I turn fragments of deconstructed found objects into excessively layered and intricately textured sculptures and installations that connect to histories and transformations, and often display competing instincts for protection and connection.

      From curbside "free" piles, thrift stores, and bags of random stuff from friends, I separate out once-sentimental, but now unwanted things that relate to childhood play and comfort; tradition and celebration; heirlooms and legacy. Things like mass-produced holiday ornaments, outdated china sets, tins full of buttons, mothballed afghans, artificial flower arrangements, out-grown stuffed animals, and hand-knit sweaters are reclaimed to become my raw materials. 

        I transform selective combinations of these orphaned objects into maximalist compositions that teem with mystery and life. Divergent surfaces converge into sculptures that are inspired by things unnoticed and unacknowledged. They collectively become ecosystems, burrows and nests; microbes and air-borne particulates; as well as unseen spectral entities and apparitions. Often, I adorn the surfaces of sculptures with clusters of familiar manufactured objects that are discrete, functional, and quotidian, but in their aggregate, become biomorphic. Groupings of modified sponges and accordioned paint color sample cards appear as types of fungus; cellophane-frilled sandwich toothpicks and plastic cocktail swords protrude like quills and spikes; and slender forms upholstered with cotton pads and white sweaters may be briefly mistaken for bone.

       As I build the forms, I create malleability within them so that I may shift them and change them continuously throughout. I respond to the ongoing changes in positioning by adding, subtracting and intuitively reshaping the work into fluid configurations that respond to nuanced relationships between the material world and internal, human, experiences.