I’ve always had a fascination with the public and private aspects of the home. Integrating photography, collage, painting and sculpture, I make a haunting visual experience that examines the places we live. My artwork uses representations of interiors and exteriors that are ripped, torn, folded, and crumpled, as well as objects from the home, to dissect aspects of public and private life. I’ve developed a process of working that embraces a lack of scheme and evolves into pieces I hadn’t previously conceived. I see creating art as visual investigation, problem solving and discovery. My content and process address what the definition of a home is as it undergoes constant evolution.

In every home there exists the potential for connections between family, community, culture, and economics--connections I use to inform my visual vocabulary. With each trip back to my home state of Colorado, I witness the suburban environment rapidly usurping the land. In Boston, I watched my friend’s family grow and change in the comfort of their home, only to have their sanctuary ruptured by neighborhood violence. In Cape Town, I saw the vestiges of an entire downtown neighborhood being razed to make room for a luxury development. As I contemplate these problems, I am drawn to the diverse nature of the home.