| studio practice statement |

*updated 9.24.08

My work draws upon stories told through geography, the built environment and the societal dynamics they shape and reveal. I utilize a variety of images and objects which demarcate or characterize these spaces by signaling access, control, leisure or protection. These include materials such as barriers and fences, as well as rafts and guardian statuary. While I often focus on elements which typically define spaces of privilege by creating of sites of control, I am also particularly interested in historic markers which actively shape the reading of the sites around them, suggesting changes in the landscape over time. These are relics against which social progress is mapped.

I take these images and objects and restructure their relationships through my drawings. While these speculative pieces are built from objects drawn from real sites and carry with them the traces of their original social purpose, their new configurations allow for other possibilities, including agency or critique.