Artist Statement

The handmade is at the heart of my practice. What I make is part of an ongoing life-project addressing myriad issues that have floated about throughout my years — duality, gender, labor, ecology, politics, balance, power, accommodation, human relationships, symbiotic occurrence, and the sheer love of beauty, craft, and materiality. In my undertakings, I challenge the ordinary to become extraordinary. The familiar and the unknown gather to honor the universal presences of intuition, the subconscious, and chance. Material and structure, united with idea, become a synthesis that is all at once promising, complex, and mesmerizing.

The work is my life’s narrative, with multiple and layered stories traversing, crisscrossing, and circling back on themselves, every step of the way. Shit happens, truths and lies unfold, the personal becomes political.

I have long made much with little, relying on my skills as a maker to bring ideas to life. As each work progresses, formal and psychological considerations inform aesthetic decisions. Thinking-through-making sensibilities and attention to detail join with references to functionality and stand as evidence of how ideas, process, and material resolve and grow in countless new ways — self-referential, filled with wonder — an observation of the world at a moment in time.