I am very interested in our complex perceptions of the natural world and the expectations
we place on our surroundings. We long for a sense of peace and rejuvenation from being out
in the forest and are drawn to the wildness of the natural world, yet spend vast quantities of our
spare time taming our personal surroundings. The little square of land we live on becomes our
private Eden that we can shape to our own liking. I am interested in these contradictions in our behavior and the tendency we have to conveniently forget one of these two worlds at a time.

I have always been a collector of societal debris - lost mittens, glass fragments, and other
touches of the human hand in unexpected places. The displacement of these objects and the idea
of the separation of useful objects and those that are rendered useless when they are out of context
is also a contradiction that I am curious about.

As an artist I am seduced by materials and the process of making an object out of an idea. The exercise is satisfying and complex, a game of your own rules where you learn more about yourself. The process is a means to an end, and the end result is rarely as you expected it to be. The process is educational and full of pauses that allow the initial idea to develop and the work becomes more intuitive in this way. This latest body of work is an exploration of the seductive beauty of our natural world and the imprint that our wants and mistakes have placed on it.