My sculpture, installations, drawing and photography considers the small, quiet moments of our everyday lives. I examine the emotional weight that can often slip through the cracks of routine, repetition and pattern. The casual stacking of magazines in the corner, the delicate personality found within a signature, and a casual gesture discovered within a discarded grapevine, all quietly demand attention and investigation.
Sitting within these moments, I create facsimiles often through casting or actual-size drawings, using architecture and design as larger points of departure. These copies have a clear mark of the artist’s hand and are rendered without the critical glue of functionality or purpose, to open up an emotional connection to otherwise strictly functional objects. A granite rock translated into porcelain, is now able to become fragile, light and something new. An exaggerated color palette, shifts in material choices and a focus on process all serve to increase this fiction and awaken the viewer’s expectation of the familiar.
Time often unravels in exaggerated way in my work; slowing down and speeding up haphazardly, echoing how our memories can be selectively picked up or erased. This glitch or failure within our brain becomes something I hold on to and pry open.
Ultimately, my work delves into the personal through the lens of the familiar- by asking the viewer to look harder, wider and longer at what they deem as true, and to question the faith and routine that appears to direct our everyday lives.
Sitting within these moments, I create facsimiles often through casting or actual-size drawings, using architecture and design as larger points of departure. These copies have a clear mark of the artist’s hand and are rendered without the critical glue of functionality or purpose, to open up an emotional connection to otherwise strictly functional objects. A granite rock translated into porcelain, is now able to become fragile, light and something new. An exaggerated color palette, shifts in material choices and a focus on process all serve to increase this fiction and awaken the viewer’s expectation of the familiar.
Time often unravels in exaggerated way in my work; slowing down and speeding up haphazardly, echoing how our memories can be selectively picked up or erased. This glitch or failure within our brain becomes something I hold on to and pry open.
Ultimately, my work delves into the personal through the lens of the familiar- by asking the viewer to look harder, wider and longer at what they deem as true, and to question the faith and routine that appears to direct our everyday lives.