STATEMENT OF WORK

I often compare the function of an artist to that of a digestive tract. We are tasked to hungrily consume visual information that surrounds us, and eject it into a new form. As a found object artist, I take this role literally; assembling and transforming discarded materials en masse. 
My collection process is passive, in that I rarely go out of my way to collect materials. Rather, I find them as I make my daily commutes, while walking my dog, or traveling outside the city. Sometimes, the objects are things I own but no longer have use for. The objects I collect document my movements through a primarily urban landscape, acting as a diaristic form of temporal and geographical research. 
Compositional systems designed to emulate and manipulate nature, such as Ikebana floral arrangement or Olmsted’s principles of landscape architecture, inform my method of constructing sculpture with the aforementioned objects. In integrating both organic and inorganic refuse, I seek to evolve beyond the perspective of “nature” as a space untouched by human intervention. Each sculpture reflects the present and future pervasiveness of waste collected within, and representational of, our landscape. 
As an address to the future, I often use science fiction narratives of my own invention as part of the invisible architecture that guides the forms I build. The results are often what I consider to be mobile architectural sculptures, monuments, and objects of obscure function or purpose.