| dc.description.abstract | I investigate my environment by walking, observing, collecting, sorting, organizing, and experimenting with materials which present themselves in the place I inhabit. Many times overlooked or discarded materials peak my curiosity, and sometimes I like to find a new purpose for their existence. My constructions reorganize inorganic, organic, and man-made materials and reimagine them in new forms. My practice is a continuously evolving conversation with material. I prefer handling and touching things with my own hands; this allows me to understand how to engage with different qualities of matter. Haptic knowledge, this elemental understanding and learning based on touch and playful experimentation helps me to combine, rework, and transform these ingredients to generate new artifacts. My creative play is fueled by my curiosity and guided by my life experience and my reverence for nature. As all of nature is constantly in the process of transformation, my work meditates on life, death, and renewal. My aim is to draw the viewers’ attention to the beauty of nature. I entice people to look more closely and to notice the commonly overlooked. I call on the observer to acknowledge and appreciate the ephemerality of all. | |
