My pieces rest in a state of suspended animation, speaking of possibility and potential rather than articulating a finite resolution. The subject of the work is work itself, in this case good office work. Loosely construed accumulations of utilitarian materials or images figure as inventories or collections. Presumed hierarchies between disciplines are dissolved through their interchangeability and service to each other. The vantage point of these pieces is from inside form, describing the hidden order that underlies all living things.

The qualities and questions that have been the subject of my work for years are expressed through a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture and time-based collaborative installations. In all the work, a seemingly arbitrary process of image-making leads to meaning through repetition and organization. Images and forms acquire a sense of purpose, not in their singularity, but in their relationship to the whole, (whether that whole is a space or a collection of works in a space) or as a sequence in a process over a course of time. As the artist, I play a role of facilitator, bringing to light something that was already there.

Refuse, brought to a transfer station or dump, is churned into smaller pieces that will fill huge containers more efficiently. Cast off re-usables land in second-hand stores or on the curbside. A desire for reduction and efficiency, or an attempt at making more space, are usually the cause of these things being discarded. In my studio practice another kind of efficiency is at work. I try to cultivate an openness to working with what I have, or what comes my way. Expansion, rather than reduction, is the outcome, physically and perceptually. Physically, I am trying to transform little things into bigger things, shape nuance, and relocate familiar things in an unfamiliar order. I hope to awaken in the viewer a feeling of familiarity and distance, resourcefulness and impracticality, and maybe even inspire a willingness to see a molehill as a mountain, to shift ones perception to embrace small as big, simple as complex, ordinary as elegant, low-end as high-end, easy as difficult, accidental as purposeful, incidental as noteworthy.