I create site and time-specific projects from found materials. Projects engage with ideas related to adaptability, renewal, and appreciating the objects of our everyday life. Projects result from various research and obsessions, as well as accidental discoveries made while trying things. I travel to feed my curiosity and to understand the abundance of perspectives in our world. These encounters with people and places regularly bring me into new relations with my surroundings and lead to new ideas that call previous norms into question. My work reshapes the way we experience, and often take for granted, the stuff of our world–both its raw materials and ideas.
I’ve made work about consumer culture, mass disposability, dreamscapes, change blindness, the wild woman archetype, environmental degradation, parallel worlds, semantic satiation, vibrant matter, living nomadically, and a former life in the circus. The connective tissue often lies within the materials I use and the layers of process I employ when constructing pieces. Almost all of the elements I use are harvested from discarded piles of waste which I reimagine for greater purposes in storytelling.
Based in New Orleans and Brooklyn with opportunities to travel and work as an artist-in-residence throughout the years. I have spent time at The Vermont Studio Center, Basement6 in Shanghai, The Birdsell Project, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Kuona Trust in Nairobi, the Textile Art Center, the Elsewhere Museum, Stove Works and the Tides Institute, all of which have had a profound impact on my life and work. I have a deep gratitude to all of the communities that continue to support and engage with my work and look forward to sharing more.