STATEMENT OF WORK

child made me a vigilant observer with an understanding that our connection to place is tenuous. The impulse to concretize and encapsulate my surroundings drives my studio process, resulting in work that starts with seeing and arrives at reinvention.

I am drawn to the haphazard allure of the makeshift and timeworn—the detritus of human endeavor. I inevitably notice the off-kilter construction-site barrier; a broken shutter; the outline of a former doorway, long plastered over. On daily walks I photograph buildings and structural marginalia, collecting image fragments of angles, color, patterns, texture, and light. The invented architecture of my 2D and 3D constructions are an amalgam of thousands of such details I’ve observed and documented.

These works are made of found corrugated cardboard that I cut and coat with acrylic paint and patterned paper. Working from a rotating supply of leftover scraps and in-progress segments, I respond to each piece as it develops—one intended to be wall-hanging may end up a stand-alone sculpture; another begins tall and narrow and becomes short and wide. Colors shift, pieces expand or contract. Discarded cardboard exemplifies the waste of overproduction and our reliance on expedience, but as an art material it is regenerative. By giving it a new idiom, I intuitively create speculative, tactile micro-worlds that celebrate imperfection.