Artist Statement:

My goal as an artist is to engage a broad audience. By creating objects with a certain amount of familiarity and accessibility, I try to entice the viewer and instill a sense of curiosity and awareness about our global culture and how it shapes our landscape and molds our lives.

I believe the emotional state of awe and wonder is an essential part of human experience. As an artist I enjoy transforming and recontexualizing materials, often reworking the ubiquitous into something unfamiliar and the banal into something unique. By making objects that thwart easy definition, I create an open environment to encounter the work while experiencing something novel. Using waste material that is often untidy and muddled in appearance and redeeming it into a carefully crafted object is a pleasurable part of my process, altering prior cast-offs into something of value and beauty, an act of optimism.