Artist Statement

My work combines photography, collage, sculpture and installation. This mixed media approach results from a fascination with the photographic medium. I have an ongoing tumultuous relationship with the photograph—its limitations, its farcical nature and its historical and present contexts. It’s a universal language that is so varied in its uses and understandings, and I’m deeply invested in exploring it. I’m interested in the practice of making abstract, or re-interpreting reality and the everyday to make new surrealities. My process involves using both found and created objects to build sculptures and installations in various environments. These sculptures are then rendered flat through the photographic image, controlling the viewer’s access to them. Often, an additional level of dimensionality is added by presenting the photograph as a multi-dimensional object. Guided heavily by intuition and informed by historical and theoretical writing, pop culture and personal experience, I concentrate on challenging one’s faith in perception, creating layers of meaning.