STATEMENT OF WORK

Through visits to the Arctic, Biosphere 2, the Mayan Pyramids, and other geological, technological, and archaeological sites, I investigate the uncanny dimensions of the natural world. Using metamorphic substances such as fossils, meteorites, moss, and heat, I combine scientific, technological, and mythical perspectives to see how materials found in nature can be understood to embody existential qualities. From the cosmic to the molecular, matter — like radiation leftover from the Big Bang, or wax secreted from bees — reveal certain underlying forces in nature. Working with byproducts of the metabolic process of the universe, the protean forms in sculpture, photography, and film travel between different timescales; the physical boundary of the work is not limited to its visible expression.

I use natural materials in my sculptural forms to reconfigure the notion of nature beyond our common sense perception of reality. Nature is not limited to the geocentric Newtonian world, but includes planets, black holes, electrons, protons, and other celestial and quantum entities.  Exploring matter in scales endlessly vast, my research has recently shifted to the realm of the infinitesimally small to explore quantum machines, which use subatomic particles, or nature at its most fundamental level, to encode information and make calculations. The quantum computer bridges our classical world with the subatomic realm; like my sculptural work, it occupies a space between the real and the imaginary.