According to Nicolas Bourriaud, the task of art now is to “ learn how to inhabit the world in a better way”. This noble sentiment underlies and sustains my studio practice. My life experience, short as it may be, has taught me to accept ambiguity and revel in complexity. In my Installations I purposefully choose to use fragile materials and form tenuous relationships between them. These relationships often have the outcome of perceived failure. The water can’t fight the twenty feet of gravity; the tubing system can’t sustain the pressure and leaks, or the sponges are unable to absorb enough moisture. Yet in this failure, I am forced to accept the ambiguity of an unknown outcome and revel in the complexity which foretells this assured failure.

My Installations, which are site-specific and transient, provide both visual and tangible residues which then become the basis and inspiration for drawings. The unpredictability of the installations creates a set of conditions, which I then take back into my studio to evaluate and reprocess. Actions created by the installations such as evaporation, filtration, and absorption become the conceptual basis of the work.