I make work that examines the consumption of a given process. Pieces of imagery are often extracted from tools and utensils to reconstruct meaning based on the way material is manipulated. There is an inserted duality at work between sensuality and implied pragmatism; the idea of utility with the reality of cognitive object reflection. By this I attempt to bring forth a curious tactile quality, vaguely reminiscent of something functional.

Most of my work originates from raw material and is manipulated to appear once manufactured and now discarded and re-appropriated to a new life. Parts of the art are often designed separate from the whole finished piece and assembled intuitively, while re-sketching with chalk on the studio floor.

I spend a great deal of time at recycling yards where imagery is found in scrap heaps like factory fossils. My work is a piecing together of memory piles and slices of thought. In a sense, I am making the objects that I wish I could find, but the love of making prevents me from ever finding exactly what I am looking for or even knowing what it is.

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