My work explores psychologically charged spaces and objects that trigger feelings of wonder, awkwardness, fear, and isolation. Using materials and techniques from theater props, toys, tents and “knock down” furniture I make portable objects that combine the flatness and pictorial qualities of drawing and painting with the physical presence of sculpture. I am interested in the tension that exists between the structural and formal properties of the work and its representational aims.

My most recent project,“The Wood” is an installation of sculptures of trees in various stages of life and death that explore both the sublimity of the woods and the material of wood. The trees, made of silhouettes cut with a jigsaw from pine plywood, suggest a manufactured material returning to its original form. The cross-section, or “Cookie,” which simulates a giant tree’s growth rings through obsessive painting, represents an object that reveals the duration and awesomeness of nature through its destruction. Among these works, the viewer becomes aware of his or her relationship to time, to the space within the gallery, and to the spaces beyond that the objects suggest.