My creative focus is on challenging traditional spatial and contextual confines through a distinct blend of sculpture and painting that blurs the boundaries of the two and three dimensional. As abstract constructions, my recent body of work explores themes of perpetual transformation in both our external and internal worlds. I am intrigued by the interplay of seemingly contradictory elements and systems of growth, erosion, and reconfiguration that give rise to a peculiar harmony and ever-changing whole.
Architectural and industrial structures, as well as organic, figurative, and geological formations inspire my sculptural compositions that incorporate angular forms and lines with fluid curvature, invoking a union of human-made and natural. I investigate a sense of structural impermanence with protruding mosaics of densely overlapping and interconnected fragments in a range of materials including paperboard, plastics, wire, and wood. Richly applied layers of acrylic paint form textured surfaces resonant of transient patinas – contrasting subtle neutral tones and dark lines with areas of vibrant color to convey a sense of weathering over time, incompleteness, or constant regeneration. Often as wall sculptures, the works invite engagement from various angles as they extend from the surfaces they inhabit, suggestive of organisms in active states of flux.
In concert with this quality of spatial restlessness, my constructions convey temporal ambiguity, as though emerging from both ancient past and distant future. These juxtapositions between such discordant characteristics serve to express a dynamic tension between continual change and coherence that is intrinsic to built and natural environments, as well as our social and inner realms.