About

I collect found and foisted objects connected to childhood, comfort, and celebration. I integrate them, along with banal and functional objects, into otherworldly sculptures that teem with history, struggle, beauty and absurdity.

In my work, patinas on antique heirlooms scuff the unnatural candy color surfaces of manufactured plastic toys they mash up against. Soft heaps of old sweaters and stuffed-animal pelts are lashed together with strings of burnt out lights. Plagues of ribbons and holiday ephemera ooze from crevices. Vines, covered in a lichen-like froth - formed from clusters of disposable novelties - climb and overtake scaffolds assembled from stacked, broken, and twisted furniture and fixtures.

Alluding to hidden legacies, internalized power dynamics and covert survival strategies, I attend to peripheral, subliminal, and energetic presences that lurk within our homes, gardens, and even ourselves. Using materials embedded with memories of their former owners, I transform familiar objects into complex, layered forms. These works are partially inspired by airborne particulates, peripheral microhabitats like webs and nests, biological systems, microorganisms, parasites, and imagined or supernatural entities. They also combine with and struggle against the confines of haphazard hybrids of domestic objects meant to provide structure and stability, such as chairs, plant stands, or lamp bases.

These bewildering sculptures appear self-determined. Developing through improvisational way-finding, rather than premeditated engineering, they explore the tangled urge to conceal, uncover, make sense of, or redirect the buried layers of complex lineages. Through this journey of integration and becoming, in spite of their chaotic and oppressive beginnings, a strange and imperfect beauty emerges.