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 make visible unseen life forces and entities that often 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 hybrid amalgams of domestic objects that provide structure and stability, such as chairs, plant stands, or lamp bases.

These bewildering sculptures are frequently intuitively insisted on, rather than premeditated- exploring the tangled urge to uncover, make sense of, or redirect the buried layers of complex lineages. Because they develop through imperfect way-finding, the sculptures appear self-determined - unearthing a strange beauty in their capacity to survive in spite of their chaotic and oppressive origins.