Drawing, for me, is the practice of experimentation and invention – experimentation of materials, and the invention of relationships formed between materials.  I work small; however I imagine each piece as the member of a much larger whole – collaborating among clusters of pieces within each series.  I build each series en masse, and each series contains a redundancy of ingredients and processes, layered and altered within each series. 

As I draw, I inquire about ideas of tradition and history, structure, surface and color, and the boundaries and relationships between each of these ideas as well as the processes involved in creating a visual metaphor for these inquiries.  I rely on the connections and boundaries between traditions of craft and the influence of technology and contemporary media. My aesthetic is imbued with elements that reflect on the natural world – where a similar struggle for balance and variation exist.  For me, the allure of art-making lies in the growth and evolution reliant on repetition, the experience of collaborating with various media, and the discovery of the final result of each. 

I hope for my work to be distanced from monotony and predictability; for it to lie somewhere between preservation and destruction, obsession and liberation, structure and surface, creation and replication.  I want my work to speak of relationships formed between materials which create consequence and ultimately become a visual metaphor for history and an observation of the natural world.