My art notices details from everyday life that often slip by unnoticed, then brings them into art spaces where viewers can grant them a new kind of attention. By reframing found objects and collaged remnants in new environments, I reveal the histories they carry and create space for viewers to recognize their own experiences within the work, fostering connection, empathy, and community. Through deliberate shifts in context, scale, and presentation, I encourage reflection on the overlooked, the mundane, and the quiet beauty of daily life.
Photography
Photography is a tool, as paint is to a painter, not just a document of or commentary on an object. Yet, unlike a painting that originates only in the artist’s imagination, the photo is “taken” from an object that exists in 3D space and time.
I use photography in combination with other media to transform 2D images back into 3D. By changing a photo’s size, placement, and context, layering it on unusual surfaces or incorporating it within sculptures made from found objects, I transform
the image into part of a three-dimensional collage.
Collage
Collage is an art that brings diverse things and people together. My 3D sculptural work adapts the art of collage to everyday materials, and draws inspiration from ikebana’s formal use of natural, organic items, gracefully combined to make anaesthetic statement. They are not traditional “flower” arrangements but combine items found in nature: driftwood, branches, stones, and reeds, with human-made salvage usually found indoors: electronic parts, wires, plastic straws, and tubing. I like the idea of combining salvage with the elegance of ikebana to make, unexpected connections.
Art of the Home
I draw both inspiration and materials from domestic and familial connections. Traditionally, women at home have told their life stories through forms of handiwork that rely on touch and communicate an ethic of caring: sewing, preparing food,
cleaning, and keeping house. This work, though often underappreciated, becomes the foundation of stories shared with families, friends, and communities. My art testifies to
unregarded everyday acts and captures the time I spend noticing. It reminds me that creativity, problem-solving, and wrestling with common materials are crucial to everyday life.
Photo Sculpture
I use photography in combination with other media to transform 2D images back into 3D. By changing a photo’s size, placement, and context, layering it on unusual surfaces or incorporating it within sculptures made from found objects, I transform
the image into part of a three-dimensional collage
Installations
As an artist, I have been searching to find my own voice and identity through my art. I use everyday items and concepts, collaging them together and accentuating them. I look at things
from odd angles. Learning to take photos of things and treasure them in different ways; reframing and transforming them,
soft with hard, contemporary with old, reframing them, and giving them new form.
My most recent works are focused not only on the art pieces but how they are installed: the paper they are created on, the wall they are hung on, where they are shown, are all layers of the art. Instead of trying to make them invisible, I try to focus attention on the typical unnoticed.
Paper House
Daydream
Words and Pictures
