Artist Statement
My work grows by lingering. Stopping on a daily commute and standing still. Looking longer.
Traversing the city through digital photographs, I collect images of the sloppy traces of human activity around industrial spaces. I find inspiration in parking lots, surrounded by birdsong, pausing outside before slipping into a warehouse building for work. Driving past a construction zone glittering with fluorescent traffic cones. Walking down the sidewalk on an incredible day of February sun bursting through the gray of a long winter.
Much of my work draws on the objects that shape human movement and stories built from repetitive labor. Through handweaving, I enact the same repetition to capture what always feels out of reach: the last seconds of the sun setting against the factory wall, wavering shadows fluttering against the pavement, and the transient space between an open storefront and a shuttered one. The smell of asphalt baking in the summer heat. In a train car, everything blurs into color fields broken by gestural graffiti signatures.
I think about movement as a language, and the things left behind as calligraphy. Using both material illusion and abstraction, I weave between the melancholy and humor of a world that is constantly disappearing around us, and a world that must be constantly reimagined.
