Coming into being, falling out of being, containment and openness, consuming and being consumed, this wrestling match between being in and out of control is what fuels my work. I am a curator of objects and shadows, a choreographer of space, a collector of sounds. My work embraces silence, vulnerability, and disorientation. I look for connections to the familiar, but pull the rug out from under it. Working with sculpture and found objects, sound, lens and time-based media, light, and language, I play on interrupting the familiar, pairing order with chaos, engineering inter-dependence and balance. Disruption and discomfort interest me in the process of transforming environments, forced out of the realm of familiar into the liminal zone, replacing predictability with uncertainty. Ruminating on the efficacy of words, the distortion of language, the randomness of understanding, and the never-ending misdiagnoses of communication, I incorporate writing into my work to push the dialectic of discourse.
I create public spaces for people to have their own experiences. Each person's encounter is particular. The space becomes the intermediary through which some memory is stimulated. People, individuals, and communities collectively experience the dynamic of moving through space while simultaneously experiencing the very personal and shifting dynamic of stability and instability.
No matter what is around you, you have to take care of your own house.
