ARTIST STATEMENT

My creative work is series-based using wood and metal working techniques as well as ceramic practices to explore object valuation systems. Research revolves around material and provenance justifications for preserving objects in domestic collections: specifically investigating the ability of objects of seemingly little significance to act as a memory aid and surrogate for the corporeal.  Similar to still life painting and photography, found objects are often utilized or referenced as a metaphor for life cycles.  Formally the work draws from the language of fragments; using incomplete forms to allude to a larger whole.