ARTIST STATEMENT
I am engaged in a dialogue with the built environment, specifically with the ordinary, ubiquitous yet rarely noticed parts of the man-made urban world around us. I use my perceptions of these literally marginal surroundings as
a point of departure for framing questions about our present day urban environment, and about our almost unconscious embrace of widely-shared assumptions in a media-driven world: ideally, my sculptures serve as metaphors for these ideas. I hope to make sculptures that are closely tied
to the real world and, at the same time, compelling as unreal, created structures. My goal is to create constructions that are at once place and object, with there own internal logic, which are in discussion with actuality
but are also independent.

The large-scaled plaster pieces that I build embody this discussion. They are based in visual memories of many different events, assembled both by recollection and the act of making. They combine more or less recognizable fragments of remembered images in ways that have only a tenuous relation to the literal qualities of the generating experience but, I hope, evoke it. I make all the components, never casting directly from anything pre-existing, so that I can reinvent size relationships as well as spatial ones. By shifting scales and structural logic, I hope to suggest the instability of memory and the passage of time.