Artist Statement

My practice revolves around the extraction of sub-structures, removing objects from their original context to abstract their meaning and redefine their function. As a means of responding to these objects, I integrate crafted components that are void of any predetermined function, existing outside conventional systems of use. Through this process, I explore shifting value systems, questioning how materials and forms gain or lose significance when displaced, creating space to challenge hierarchies and engage the viewer in reimagining purpose and worth. 

Often sourcing inspiration from relics of industry and remnants encountered in my daily travels, I place myself in dialogue with these objects to best respond to their materiality. This salvage plays a central role in my practice, expanding beyond the material acquired to the act of removal through exploration of site. I investigate the porosity of bound structures as a pathway toward a broader inquiry of our relationship to our built environs and consequently each other. Through this excavation of sub-structures, I look to disrupt the facade of the architecture we navigate as a method to question the function of theseenclosures. In this way I am thinking with Gordon Matta-Clark, engaging with sites left as monuments of decay, sourcing material from them and interfacing directly with the architecture. Surfacing these byproducts left behind from the churn of capitalism begins the process of breaking from this ecosystem to embrace what is at our disposal.  

I use glass as a matrix to personify the tensions that transcend our current landscape, providing a presence within the abstract architecture. I employ the impressionability and fluidity of glass to contrast the static industrious elements. This juxtaposition is a critique of the fixed nature of our built environment, both physically and socially, imagining capacities to deconstruct the systems of power in which we currently are entrenched.