Traces of us linger in the physical world, even in our absence. There is an evocative nature to domestic objects and spaces; items within homes hold the residual energy of lives once lived after those people are gone. My work depicts ordinary objects from living rooms that hold the remaining radiance and tenderness of the departed.

I work with materials that have weight to them to ground ephemeral concepts into an artwork that is physically solid. The work holds the ideas and feelings that are light and nearly impossible to contain—similar to homes’ capacity for holding the lingering domestic presence of a long gone former resident. Contour lines move across the surface of the works like phantoms; other times a contour line defines the edge of a work—articulating a wing or hand—as a fully present body.