The struggle with ones body through illness and aging and ones mind through depression is constantly explored in my work. The body and mind are played out as two entities. There is a duality represented between the exterior, physical self and the landscape of ones mind in thought and memory. The interior and exterior self differ greatly. The interior is an ambiguous landscape filled with unexplored regions, familiar spaces, and dark territories we avoid and ignore. I attempt to create the feeling and emotion of these mental spaces in physical space. I work in a site responsive manner to create installations that have a relationship to the scale of the viewer’s body. I would like to evoke a feeling of envelopment from the space as well as a reconnection to the interior through triggered memory.

An acute awareness of the temporal is interwoven throughout nearly every conceptual and process oriented aspect. My work often evokes a single moment that has been paused; yet different layers of information unfold within on a seemingly different plane of time. This relates to the process of remembering as the body is paused in the present while the mind enters into the past. The uncertainty of life in general is a simple yet powerful driving force behind the temporality of my work. The material of the work itself is often impermanent, each piece existing as it is for only a specific duration. This connects to the life span of the body in aging and death, serving as a subtle memento mori.