My work investigates the sentimental relationships that develop between people and things. I explore how objects provide a retreat into an alternate reality, and provide an inanimate memorial to our relationships, goals, anxieties, obsessions, and vulnerabilities. I am intrigued by secret desires we can express only through collections. Our desire for power and possession is often easier to channel through the objects we collect and arrange.

The scale and whimsical nature of the objects I use evokes the act of play, and play as a process functions as a method of generating my imagery. I define “play” as a way of thinking with the hands, and I employ this method to distill, understand and transform reality through the objects I create and arrange. Often something as simple as the proximity of two objects can evolve into a complex narrative I expand upon through drawings, paintings and prints.