Statement
At the core of my practice is a desire to harness the feeling you get when you look at something ordinary and it strikes you as new and strange. In the pursuit of that desire, I make assemblages that lie somewhere between imagined landscapes, systems, and devices, by using materials such as plants, found objects, photographs, videos, and miniatures. Using these materials, I find ways of bringing attention to how objects can be connected and regarded in simultaneous, entangled conditions; as signifiers siphoning different functions, contexts, narratives, and meanings, and through which different places, states of mind, and preoccupations can link and consolidate into abstract, whimsical scenes. I am interested in the potential stored in everyday things as a network of transfers and relays, where scenes and objects can resonate with each other at different scales, giving the ordinary the charge of an unfolding. Pursuing this method of working provides me with a means to examine media forms, cultural framings, and meaning-making processes. My aim is to make work that helps ground people into appreciating their surroundings by providing methods for noticing and contemplating the endless, kaleidoscopic ways in which things are connected – be they objects, thoughts, feelings, impressions, or dreams.