I’m focused on creating vibrant, immersive environments and new forms of ritual for collective repair. I want to make people happy and help them to think so they can be in the world and effect change. 

 

My background is in sound art. I now work in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and sound. Visitors to my Installations move through evocative layered spaces where images, sounds, and unexpected objects come together to provide both comfort and wonder. I use materials such as rain, snow, sand, earth, paper, and wildly colored plastic gems and wigs to construct images and objects that are both magical and therapeutic: provocative reminders that transformation and change can be both possible and beneficial.

 

My conceptual focuses include human impact on the ecosphere and shocked responses to our current world. At present I am particularly drawn to Alchemy; not as a science but as an approach to transformation and making. I’m interested in dissonance and maximalism and the power of oppositional forces: what tensions and artifacts result when one or more things come into contact. I think new meaning arises from such pairings and a special space for consideration opens up. I find the surface exuberance of non-specific forms and colors a helpful way to deal with stressors. It's a kind of visual stimming. I’m trying to create an art hospital.  

 

I'm worried about the world and believe that art plays a vital part in fixing it. Making is an act of resistance and hope.