The work is a manifestation of place conceived through the provocative and chimerical nature of memory. Associations of landscape as beautiful, ideal domestic spaces are juxtaposed with personal, fragmented experiences and unresolved moments of bewilderment.

I am gathering past memories and experiences, then bundling them into placeholders helping me recall a sense of a moment that can never be had again. There is a struggle to make sense of the disconnectivity between seemingly mythic experiences in nature and the familiar, domestic, everyday of living.

This process of exploration opens the opportunity to think about how we assemble our lives and idealize our environment, or maybe better yet, how we idealize our lives and assemble our environment. Collapsing the two reveals the domesticated maintenance of incongruities that arises between ourselves, and the world in which we live.

The objects and materials I use carry a pre-conceived value or weight. They can be attached to a specific memory or may simply serve to help construct the domestic spaces that surround us. Ceramic material often enters my work. It’s unique in how it breaches both high cultural value and domestic functionality. The physical labor that clay demands validates for me a sense of play.

Working in this manner provides the opportunity to integrate my relationship with specific materials into a composition of objects that then strive to articulate a palpable sense of an encountered place in time.