Artist Statement

Industry-- excessive, mean, crude, sometimes refined-- is my inexhaustible muse.  From industry, an aggregation of cheap manufactured goods is dispersed across the globe, producing a massive hoard. My creative labor produces a more personal collection-- objects, rows, and piles of things I cannot part with. As a maker (and as a collector) objects fascinate me in the way they are originally constructed and ultimately put to use. I am also taken by their visceral, sensual, and visual characteristics. These objects seem potent. They hold an inexplicable power over me, partly because of their special link to my memories but also because industry has perfected the art and science of creating objects of desire.

I work across media, using the methods and materials of digital imaging, alternative photography, and sculptural replication. By replicating and modifying consumer goods (and by photographing these transformed objects), I reconsider the value and use of mass produced objects in relation to the individual. The resulting objects and images are performed as multiples, iterations, remixes, as I continue the process of copying, marking, altering, and arranging.

Winter 2010