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STATEMENT OF WORK
Since I was young, I loved to collect used and empty boxes and shopping bags. I was attached to the appearance of these containers that once held things, but were now empty vessels evoking a feeling of loss.
Gradually, unwanted and ignored things have become my art supplies. This has come to include leftovers from fellow artists and art classes, household recycling, and even my own unfinished or failed art. I like to work with discarded materials and objects that inspire me to respond to their mysterious history.
I collaborate with the existing surface and form of these salvaged materials, adding simple rendering, gestural marks, saturated and vibrant neon and metallic colors, and layers of collage. The resulting works are mixed media paintings and objects that function as visual records of the process of finding, collecting, playing, and finally, transforming these materials.
My works celebrate the ‘useless’ matter in a world where ‘useful or valuable’ materials are preferred. Transforming these easily discarded materials preserves them from the fleeting nature of their existence.