Artist Statement

My work constructs a form of perceptual architecture using domestic materials, light, and repetition to organize attention and shape how care is learned.

I approach the domestic not as a private backdrop, but as a formative system—where values are trained through daily rituals of use, maintenance, and attention. Within this space, ideas of beauty, waste, tenderness, and belonging are not abstract; they are practiced. The work considers how these habits might extend beyond the household toward an ecological ethic.

Personal loss informs this position. After my mother’s death, my relationship to memory and refuge shifted toward the natural world. Her attention to wildflowers—resilient, overlooked plants—established a lasting principle: to value what is dismissed is a moral act. This orientation guides my focus on the humble, the discarded, and the peripheral.

I work with cast cement, glass, light, and consumer packaging. By casting single-use containers into durable material, I transform disposable forms into architectural structures. These objects carry the imprint of a culture organized around speed and obsolescence; recast in weight, they operate as monuments, relics, or altars.

Historically feminized forms of labor—tending, cleaning, maintaining—inform the work as systems of knowledge. These practices are not incidental; they are techniques of attention, repetition, and repair that scale from the domestic to the ecological.

Light functions as an organizing force. It produces orientation, pause, and presence, structuring environments that slow perception and make attention tangible.

The work positions care not as sentiment, but as a condition that can be constructed, practiced, and extended.