Looking, searching, finding,
Gathering, preserving,
Collecting
The habitual act of collecting
The object in which there are multiples,
The object that is temporal, that has spirituality, and
That becomes a talisman:

Collecting - a continual search for information.
The act of collecting is an underpinning throughout all my work. It signifies a means to remember and a means to move forward. Objects such as buttons, film negatives, letters, skeletons and light embody a dichotomy of the source and the residual. In the work, gathering consists of an investigation of many dichotomies: color/mark, translucency/opacity, preserving/discarding, micro/macro, and present/absent. I am drawn to the “little things” that ultimately serve as a part of a greater whole. The “little things” and the greater whole come together by means of a decision driven by intuition.

I continually question and search for experiences in the work that will challenge intuition or that will ask the question of, “What is essential?”. Pursuing opportunities of chance with my materials allows for this exploration. Gathering and using rather innocuous objects of everyday life, such as the paper from teabags, provides such opportunities. I continually search for processes that will allow the material to reciprocate an unpredictable result that requires me to respond.

These are the elements pursued, gathered and collected in each work. They are recordings of:
That which is temporal – there is renewal
That which has spirituality – creates awareness of an obscurity of source
That which becomes a talisman – that which is gathered has presence