I build to give conviction and breath to material that originally had none. Potential for movement and growth is vital. I will start and finish some of my work only to come back to it months or years later. Thus, It is not important to call my work finished or unfinished. Sometimes, I finish works only to put them attached to or alongside other works. In this way, every environment or new construction creates the piece anew.

I am devoted to process, interaction and dialogue between things. I want to know what a piece will be on a hill, in the water, or placed on a white wall and backlit. Each new place inherently changes the object I have made. I want people to walk around my work, stick their head and hands in my work, and even move my work around. I don't mind when parts of my work fall down or break, which they have, because it teaches me something new about its form.

The material itself plays just as much of a role in the objects creation as I do. I will often become angry at the material itself, until it lends itself to compromise with me. I cannot dictate what I want it to do; rather I must work with it. My subject matter is often at odds with the materials I work with. This semester, the figure and landscape are my sources of inspiration. I may work on depicting a series of bodily movements, or a repetitive movement found in nature. I want light and shadow to interact with my objects as they do with my subjects. I want the gaps in my objects to allow the environment to fill them. The space between my objects becomes as important as the objects themselves.