About

            I integrate discarded objects that are embedded with personal histories into bewildering sculptures. My forms and choice of materials are inspired by unnoticed or unacknowledged connections between people, our environments, and one another’s lives. Through acts of accumulation and reconfiguration, I transform ephemera and trash into intricate, painterly forms that teem with mystery, vitality, and possibility of transformation.

  On walks, I often find boxes out on the curb filled with objects tied to strangers’ memories. I end up taking things that I don’t need, and don’t even really like, out of sympathy. I want them to belong somewhere, because I want to belong somewhere too. So, I bring home orphaned holiday ornaments, outdated china sets, tins full of buttons, garish artificial flower arrangements, out-grown stuffed animals, hand-knit sweaters, and moth-balled afghans. I use them, along with objects from my own family, as raw materials.

I deconstruct and meticulously alter these found and collected objects before weaving and grafting their divergent surfaces together into forms that resemble fantastical ecosystems; burrows, webs and nests; macroscopic views of air-borne particulates; and unseen spectral entities or apparitions.

To deepen a connection to the unseen, I incorporate discreet, functional everyday objects into these imagined worlds. In aggregate, these mass-produced miniature things become biomorphic. Modified multicolored kitchen sponges appear as coral and lichen. Cellophane-frilled sandwich toothpicks and plastic cocktail swords protrude like quills and spikes. Slender forms upholstered with cotton pads might momentarily be mistaken for bone.

Using fortifying processes of wrapping, binding and sewing, I intuitively weave colors and textures into configurations that feel fluid, organic, and visceral . The pieces reflect the complexly layered and nuanced relationships between the external material world and our internal human experiences.