In my work I seek to articulate distinctions between habit and ritual—the frivolity of the former countered by the intentionality of the latter. The paintings are made from the dense comingling of paint and hand-sewn remnant fabric. In the finished work, as well as the practice by which it is made, I wish to give credence to inefficiency and labor intensiveness, and to elevate these notions by pursuing them with a purposiveness that bears the gravity of ritual.

Loss I am attentive to my sense of urgency in preserving memories while simultaneously acknowledging the impossibility of such an endeavor. Although my work suggests vacancy, artmaking gives me an opportunity to re-imagine the void through an uncanny and sometimes painful confrontation with my own recollections.

My work comments on the built environment, its ephemerality, and the impact of man and his policies, politics, and polemics. For all the strength engineered into buildings, they are quite fragile, and it is this dual nature that often provides context for my work. My interest in architecture—modern architecture in particular— stems from the discipline’s attention to material, especially the move from traditional building materials like wood and brick to nontraditional materials such as glass and steel. My own work references these modern building materials, but does so by subverting them.