My practice merges time-based sources—video, sound and performance—with compelling physical objects—spatial and corporeal.  It is an attempt to upend our expectations of reality by giving substance to transitory elements.  I sculpt the acts of remembering or imagining in such a way that an observer can, with sympathetic recognition, say of this real/illusory combination, “Ah, this make sense.” And I seek to do this within a new system of sensual, experiential art.

My work exists as the interstitial moments between what we hold on to and what we let go, what is cherished, simply debris or forgotten.|I am drawn to artists in whose quiet gestures I recognize moments of defying or yielding to chaos over time. In the drawings and videos of Francis Alys, a band rehearses to signify the pendulum-like oppression / progression the politics of social agenda.  Hundreds of people dig in the dirt to move a mountain one action at a time in When Faith Moves Mountains. Marina Abramovic’s work Holding the Milk, in its trembling stillness, touches upon maturation and decay in the female body.  I am also continually mesmerized by Merce Cunningham’s 1973 gestural exercise Loops in which his hands and arms rhythmically flit about as if they were butterflies moving to an unheard composition.

Although often ephemeral, my time-based works have always been deployed in conjunction with a commitment to materiality and always firmly rooted in the context of something that exists to the touch. While still sensitive to the “hand,” my practice has expanded to more integrate my background in molecular science and urban education.  Through a series of progressive, though infinitesimal, steps, matter, ideas and relationships are transformed, sometimes towards decay and sometimes towards definition. As teacher and researcher, I shift towards a practice based upon collaborations with, and outward observations of, others. Inherently, these connections take time, and it is through watching, listening, and conversing that the center of works emerges.