Everything I make I think of as an object, from videos to drawings to places one enters. I am interested in the connection people have to objects and how we can assign importance to them. Some ontologies hold that objects have innate meaning, independent of human perception. As an artist and curator, it is fascinating to consider the question “what does this thing say” without the implied coda “to the viewer.” Creating something with an inherent meaning (and perhaps consciousness) is a union of art and parenthood that can echo my own lived experience. 

I use basic materials like unfinished wood, ceramics and fibers. The use of these basic materials is important to creating a fragment of understanding–a connection from the familiar to unanswered questions. My references are diverse: a screenshot from doom scrolling, children’s toys, theories of creation, and even my own body’s aging. I sit down to piece them together to make connections that were never intended to be. My work holds a combination of comfort and discomfort, to spark a recognition, but at the same time it is not anything one can name.