My work exists as records of empathy between plaster and other materials. Each piece contains multiple layers of material and metaphorical negotiation. Plaster with its cohesiveness, malleability, impressionability, and sensitivity to time, retains traces of interaction, such as surface marks and fissures. The material allows me to embed in it color, wood, ceramics, and everyday objects.

Across my work in sculpture, painting, and installation, I investigate fragmentation and wholeness, independence and interdependence, exteriority and interiority. I am interested in incongruous dichotomies and impossible desires: flux/stasis, hard/soft materials, body/environment relationships; the desire for an object to perform its own support, the desire for work that expands and slows time and simultaneously acknowledges the impossibility of making, as Virginia Woolf writes, “Life stand still here.”