In everydayness and banality I find rich subject matter.  In my work I attach myself to the sweet grime of everyday.  I see and feel the outskirts of things more than the things themselves.  What some deem insignificant actually propels my process.

I want to collapse into everything, all the strange matter that makes up this world.  

The space I inhabit largely influences the work.  I feed off what already exists, to become a parasite of a parasite.  I am interested in these in-between environments, which are in one sense forgotten places, in another teeming with dialog.  Plastic is often a part of the process.   Roland Barthes states it is "in essence the stuff of alchemy", but it is also ordinary, useful, and ubiquitous.

My work investigates questions of reality and disposability.  I seek to examine the value of materiality.  Does a morality of materials exist?  Are surface and essence a dichotomy or can there be a colloided state?  

The poet Stanley Kunitz said, “I dream of art so transparent that I can see the world”.  I want the things I make to reside in this world, not divorced and exalted.  Base emotions are important, such as desire and repulsion, fragility and erosion.