My installations quietly invade the environment, altering it subtle yet significant ways. I use simple materials such as masking tape, thumbtacks, dirt, and thread. The compositions develop in response to the physical and emotional characteristics of the site and the objects within it. I highlight the overlooked spaces, paying attention to corners, edges, and the point where one material meets another. I create new wallpaper patterning using dirt and cut paper, I delineate volumes of space with stretched thread or strips of wood, and add decorative elements using materials such as colored cellophane, duct tape, and broken crockery. My alterations appear to grow out of the space, and melt back into it.
Each installation site (whether a home, a studio, or a gallery) holds the results of many people who have left their mark, intended or not. My installations and objects repurpose the things that have become invisible due to their commonness: the dust we sweep up, the scraps we throw away, the materials we rely upon but rarely see. By paying attention to these artifacts, I interact with everyone who has built the room, remodeled it, cleaned it, or lived in it, and hold all of these past actions in a fragile balance with my own.