My practice is wrought from personal experience and rehearsed visual vocabulary. I create artwork that is concerned with the intersection between freedom and control, expression and silence, the individual and the communal. The work exists in an equivocal space, the interstitial gap between the painting of a structure and the creation of a structure with paint. Expanding on the perceived limitations of how certain materials are able to function physically and conceptually assists in defining the presence of my work. The found and chosen materials are cobbled together as a reflection of the inundated times we live in. The materials are the elements remembered; as well, they are the elements recited.

The dense luminous surfaces of the work – pulsing with hidden intelligence or taut with potential life – can be beautiful and disturbing, divine and grotesque. The natural elements press through the plastic surfaces of the work, turning into a slippery, engorged hybrid where inanimate objects begin to pulse with life. Sometimes celebrating the relationship and other times recoiling from it. Contemporary objects and spaces are cloaked in surfaces that have been enhanced, simulated, or engineered, surfaces that masquerade as other materials, surfaces where the physical and the virtual, the real and the imagined collide. My work is a reaction to a world where the barriers between body and product, self and other, natural and synthetic, are folding inward.