Statement

I grew up in a place that barely ever existed and doesn’t at all anymore. A place built up only to fall down, held together just long enough to come apart. This constant change was not to create anything new but rather to, at best, create anew. So everything felt poorly frozen in time, caught between movement and stillness. That tension runs through my work. The cycle of creation and collapse shapes everything I make. I build structures that seem solid but waver. They take up space but threaten to disappear. Some feel like remnants of something familiar, a boat, a home, a framework, while others defy simple definitions. Materials shift between strength and fragility, permanence and erosion. Presence and absence blur as forms float, sometimes literally, between what remains and what is slipping away. A sense of jamais vu is woven into this work, making the known feel unstable.

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Absurdity and play serve to disrupt the illusion of stability further. A sinking ship, a collapsing home, and a performance that stretches time and space until it comes undone. These gestures expose the cracks in what we believe will hold. Repetition, layering, and fragmentation echo cycles of accumulation and decay. Color amplifies tension. At times, it fades into entropy; at others, it sharpens into something artificial, forcing attention on what is built, broken, or barely holding together. Photography operates within the same framework, treating images as material and artifacts. Just as my sculptural work plays with balance, instability, and erasure, photography captures moments of transition, existing between presence and absence, between what is constructed and what is already coming undone. It does not simply document but intervenes. It flattens dimensional space, distorts scale, and shifts perception, complicating what is real and what is remembered.

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Image and form move fluidly between the physical and the virtual, questioning what is fixed and what is in flux. My practice asks how we construct, sustain, and let go of the spaces that define us. These structures always shift, whether physical, emotional, or ideological, even when we try to anchor them in place. This shift is something we often deny in our perception of things. I create work that lingers at the edge of transformation through form, movement, and material. It asks what is being held together and what is already coming undone. Jamais vu, reality, and absurdity all vie for space in these moments, unsettling what once felt certain. Just like everything else this work stands as known or unknowable as you chose to make it, it just seeks to remind you that your making a choice.