STATEMENT

My practice begins with attention. As an artist with A.D.D., I experience attention as an unpredictable and highly specific force that pulls me toward certain details before I understand why they matter. Paying attention has become a way for me to stay present and to better understand myself through what I notice. Through a consistent psychogeographic walking practice, I photograph what grabs my attention without always knowing why. Sometimes the association is immediate. Other times, I only understand what drew me to an image after returning to it in the studio.

Amidst my walking practice, my work is increasingly shaped by what these attentive encounters reveal internally. My eyes roam through native flora, signage, Americana, camp, vernacular design, pop-cultural iconography, and more. I’m especially interested in things that feel specific, human, worn, strange, or familiar enough to connect people through humor, nostalgia, recognition, and play. When I return to my photographs in the studio, memories, moods, films, books, and personal associations begin to surface. Sculpture allows me to translate these observations beyond documentation, rebuilding fragments of my perception through biomorphic forms, saturated color, playful textures, shifts in scale, and unexpected materials. The resulting works are rooted in recognizable encounters but become heightened, tactile, intimate, and slightly fantastical.

My background in photorealistic painting continues to shape the way I approach sculpture. I am increasingly interested in bringing image-making directly into three-dimensional work through painted surfaces, photographic specificity, and built elements that retain the visual logic of their source. Rather than treating painting and sculpture as separate practices, I am exploring how the representational qualities of my paintings can exist within sculptural objects and environments. Across the work, attention becomes both a method and a subject: a way of staying present long enough for ordinary details to become emotionally charged, and a way of understanding how memory, fantasy, humor, and shared cultural references shape what I see.