"Using scraps from one world to craft another, my work crosses material realms. Otherworldly, mystical, intuitive. It's more than art, it's alchemy"

I was a skilled carpenter and a gifted scenic painter. In school I specialized in scenic design, absorbing the creative process and how the creative arts are managed, or more accurately how the creative arts are mismanaged. I was on the brink of breakdown when the pandemic shut the world down. I finished my BFA online. Found balance in my personal life and learned about my Autism & Adhd which were undiagnosed up to that point. I successfully shifted my skills to work in communications & graphic design. Theatre, branding, marketing - it's all about telling a story. In this season of healing, what I now consider my fine art practice began as simple as an intuitive impulse to make movement.

Odd-saturdays spent sorting through scraps at an outdoor antique market. Motivated by an instinctive and mysterious love of things that have no known relationship to one another, I would find these found objects, bring them home, and form their shape to fit their spirit. Layers of paper, paint, and paper mache. Working with my hands left my mind to wander on a whim. Oh where the absent mind wanders...

I came to view these adventures as discovery expeditions and the sculptural piece left is simply an artifact of the creative magic that happened here. Celebrating a particular resonance by association. I explored what each artifact could mean beyond it’s aesthetic value. What does the object become when a collaborative piece of a much bigger whole?

This is the spirit my art inhabits.

So here I am - the outskirts of the universe, the absentminded destination of aimless wandering. With an ability to turn the most humble object into something of remarkable meaning. Working with found objects, I find meaning in the overlooked and discarded. Poetic assemblage as a form of narrative discovery. My work captures the fantasy of a world just beyond our own. Arranged in such a way as to inspire wonder & creative thought. exploring imaginative transformation as a catalyst for narrative storytelling. What if there are places you haven’t been where you already belong?