ARTIST STATEMENT
I am drawn to the energy of mismatched unions, the friction of awkward difference. I begin by finding unlikely but interesting combinations of objects and then create connections that that both hint at and resist unity. I incorporate objects that have been handled or worn, finding them beautiful and somehow animate.
My current body of work is about responding to chaos, about reconciling my impulse to tidy up with my need to reveal the true disarray of things in the world. I collect materials pulled or salvaged from my daily life: scraps of cloth, receipts, envelopes, snippets of text, metal things I find on the ground. I embellish them: wrapping, stitching, shrouding, trimming. Then finally, I assemble the fragments into groupings, pulling them into an uneasy community of misfits.