About

Like revisiting the past, or stepping into a stranger’s home, my work feels alluring and forbidding; delightful and 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 work formally and think surreally to meticulously interweave these disparate materials into fluid, intimate experiences teeming with memory, mystery and absurd contradictions.

I deconstruct, 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. These forms are frequently complexly entangled and interwoven, inspired by peripheral microhabitats such as burrows and nests. Some take the shape of dense clustered masses, imagining macroscopic particulates, while others are spare, looming structures that appear as supernatural or speculative entities.

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.