I am interested in making art that focuses on direct intimate experience. My assemblages and installations pose questions to the viewer about the complex relationships between the natural world and humanity. The art explores our physical and emotional connections to the environment and to the artificial and natural matter we come in contact with on a daily basis. The work relies heavily on the chance encounter to find post consumer waste. These found objects function as both muse and raw matter for the production of art making. Materials as various as lead flashing, yews, sunflowers, plastic zip ties, plexiglass signage, synthetic polymer paint, drapery and vinyl siding are incorporated, reconfigured and assigned new meaning within the context of the art. The work examines the themes of stewardship, fluidity, integration and excess. The notions of transcendence and restitution are explored in the process of finding restorative balance.

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