I was raised to be a keen observer and archivist of objects. Family values, along with a home filled with treasure sought collections, furnishings and art nourished my creative spirit. Their aesthetic kept me grounded and ultimately was the foundation for my artistic development. The combination of fortune hunting and frugality sparked individual obsessions for both my parents and later provided me with an eye for detail and tactile perspective of life.

Curiosity is the ignition of my creative process. I view my surroundings with a wide angle lens, counting shapes, seeing patterns and making mental inventories. I am attracted to the feel of things, the textures in nature, and labels on cardboard packaging. I am intrigued with the advertising and colors of food containers and am seduced by the patterns and shapes seen in recycled construction materials. These objects with a previous life or use, or materials left out in the rain or in a dumpster like a rusted tool or a piece of wood, are the foundation of what I construct and layer into my work. My attraction and affinity to shapes, colors, patterns and texture is preternatural. Inspiration comes to me in many ways. Viewing things from every angle and location provides me with the visual catalyst to reinterpret it into the organic form and geometrical shapes found in my work.

I am an alchemist mixing unusual pigment and found objects along with damar resin and beeswax to create color and texture. As an historian, I preserve the signature of our societyʼs disposable consumption in a medium that will last for future generations to discover. Like an anthropologist, I embed these items that consumers leave behind into the medium to create a two dimensional time capsule that will last forever.