I transform mundane materials into assemblages inhabiting a space between deterioration and preservation, imbricating erosion and reformation. The familiar is made unfamiliar using a formal language pairing the natural and the manufactured and combining the found with the made. My work embodies an in-betweenness that draws connections not only to the hybridity of disposability and value, but to the confusion of navigating within the cusp of categorization, tangent to established hierarchies. To be hybrid is to be neither one nor the other, it is to live in ambiguity, to lack a model for how to perform living. It is both confinement and freedom at once. I turn to material experimentation to explore hybridity, disposability, and the assessment of value, adapting the waste matter of construction and conveyance, of protection and abandonment, to make installation and sculpture. The work I'm pursuing puts to use the markers indicative of the Anthropocene, the ephemeral materials whose sole purpose is to convey manufactured goods from factory floor to consumption. The packaging enveloping everyday items leaves a vacuum where new goods previously fit. I facilitate a conglomeration of obsolescence, a reconstitution of voids. Polystyrene forms which once protected precious and fragile wares leave a precious and fragile absence, the remnants which remain visible—the inverse of a flat screen television's edge, the partial outline of a ceiling fan, the circular indentation of a hot water heater. I un-form the shapes of evacuated spaces that still embrace phantom objects.

My work pulls itself apart and in doing so leaves an index of process, the work records a history of its creation and subsequent re-making. Through mechanical and chemical degradation, assemblages of disposable protection blister, liquify, and corrode. Aggregations of material are grafted and melt into each other and where surfaces split and splinter, opening fissures, they are sutured. The carefully considered forms, colors, and textual denotations of contemporary industry are disrupted and transformed, resulting in work with an undeniable physicality that challenges viewers to re-engage with the physical and themselves.