I transform what we discard and forget in order to highlight buried perspectives and bring attention to how power manifests in relation to waste. My art reveals how our remnants (what we cast off and leave behind in the form of waste, trash, memory etc.) are physical extensions of ourselves that ground and connect us to the earth.
In my work, I invert the associations we make with different types of detritus and model connections between material and social change through value shifts, reconstruction, and reinvention.
I subvert expectations about quality and worth though critically engaged and seductive pieces anchored in familiar, accessible, objects, including blue-collar textiles, reclaimed wood, and flotation devices. I ask why manufactured products exist and where they go once we’ve used them, inviting engagement while resisting decorative or illustrative scopic regimes. My sculptures mock and undermine functionality while my two-dimensional surfaces represent layered physical processes of resistance and resilience.
My works borrow codes from domestic and industrial processes and ways of making to study power and labor through forms that defy stable, definitive, interpretations. Instead, looking itself is problematized: who is allowed to look? From what perspective? To what end? Who is looked at? Why? By asking who and what is present, I reveal connections between waste, (im)migration, environmental justice, and bodily integrity.
Ultimately, I question which bodies are missing in political and cultural discourses, asking viewers whether our current situation is fixed or not and how change can emerge.