Artist Statement 

The biomorphic organisms I create struggle to make themselves known; they grow and burst and hide in the unnoticed spaces we inhabit, teeming between the edges of what is considered human. Similar to a sponge, lichen, swarm, or school, the pieces are an aggregation of smaller individuals. Using sculpture, installation, and photography, I generate forms that occupy the space between our false conceptions of nature and culture.

My work references and conflates the body–both human and plant. The resulting pieces become foreign in their familiarity, revealing the peculiar moments within the familiar spaces and bodies we inhabit. The viewer is left to discern what these beings are and how they came to be. I am interested in complicating the viewing experience by upending the viewer’s expectations of a given environment or form and making them hyperaware of their body in relation to the work.

I create photographs in addition to my sculptural work to further investigate the types of fiction I can construct with these two mediums. Photography separates these created spaces from our own, turning them into a document from some other time or place, whereas the sculptures occupy our surroundings, living in the places we think we understand.

The intent of the work is to create an appreciation and awareness of how people go about their lives and interact with the world. From that, hopefully a more widespread realization will permeate to larger, more substantial and sustainable change in the spaces people create, and the way we define what is natural or human.