I am interested in the physical and monetary value of the materials that make up my office, home, and natural environment. The creation of installations help me make sense of the relationships between materials in my daily life: bought versus found; rough versus smooth; shiny versus matte; naturally occurring versus artificially produced. My use of contrasting colors and materials of vaying quality is a reflection of the way that the physical world comes together in my everyday spaces. I am responding to my environment through reinvented space.

Installation is a vehicle for relating to my immediate surroundings. When I physically respond to the space I am working in, I create a visual and psychological bridge between an object and the space in which it resides. The act of creating an installation is part preparation and part improvisation. I have an intentional palette and set of objects I am working with, but where they end up and how they relate to one another happens on site.

Once completed, my installations tell a story about the space they are in. They become a record of my movements and actions inside that space, but they also take on their own narrative leaving the viewer with a sense that something has just occurred or is just about to, like a frozen frame in a movie. At the root of my practice is a continuing exploration of the formal qualities of painting.