“[Cause a] rupture of our surroundings and call into question the manner in which we locate ourselves visually, subjectively, contextually... evaluate and criticize ourselves and our relation to space.”  Olafur Eliasson

My sculptural interventions exploit the human instinct to simplify and filter experience. A person enters a space and intuitively chooses which details to interact with or neglect. My work subverts the expectedness of private and public interiors by calling attention to material elements that are likely to be missed. Each piece is made for a specific space, addressing the subtle details in the physical environment. These details are often architectural or the product of chance. For example, I have re-created bugs and debris that accumulate on windowsills, re-imagined patterns made in the process of constructing flooring surfaces, and re-presented throw-away objects left behind in a given space.

These interventions serve as models or metaphors for larger experiences concerning the blurred boundary between seemingly incongruent categories: natural and artificial, accidental and intentional, real and perceived. The demarcation between elements, such as between objects and surfaces, or features that “belong” and do not belong, becomes flexible, malleable, un-fixed from traditional rules.

The viewer brings their own history and memory of the space and is confronted with elements that are most likely outside of their typical notice; those things in the periphery that one is conditioned to look past when entering a specific environment. I want to engage the conscious and subconscious nature of observation to encourage individuals to actively see each space by questioning the constructed intentions of the space and reconsidering habits and definitions.