Artist Statement

My work explores how material culture shapes the ways we perceive, remember, and care. Working across sculpture, painting, light, and installation, I transform cast remnants of everyday consumption into spaces and objects that invite sustained attention. I am interested in how ordinary materials—particularly the disposable containers that quietly accumulate around daily rituals of nourishment and comfort—can become vessels for contemplating our relationship to one another and to the living world.

Using hand-cast cement, reclaimed architectural materials, hand-painted glass, and light, I borrow the language of monuments, shrines, and domestic architecture while replacing their traditional iconography with botanical forms. Small cement paintings distill this inquiry into intimate encounters between a single cast object and a single plant, while larger sculptural installations expand it into immersive environments where architecture itself becomes a medium for perception. Together, these works ask how the spaces we inhabit—and the objects we choose to preserve—shape the values we carry forward.

Embedded throughout the work are traces of human history: discarded packaging, fragments of construction, and carved stone chess pieces concealed within architectural forms. These remnants acknowledge the ingenuity, ambition, and consequences of civilization without reducing them to symbols of failure. Instead, they become the foundation from which another possibility emerges. Light and wildflowers rise from these accumulated histories, suggesting that progress may depend less on technological mastery than on our capacity to cultivate attention, reciprocity, and care.

I think of these works as architectures of attention. If cathedrals once organized communities around shared systems of belief, I am interested in what kinds of spaces might gather us today. Rather than pointing toward transcendence beyond the world, my work seeks moments of reverence within it—where the overlooked becomes worthy of devotion, and where nature is encountered not as a resource or backdrop, but as the common ground through which we recognize our interdependence.