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My work is propelled by a fascination with the everyday workings of our minds and the psychological quirks of human nature. Personal and social perspectives color our perceptions and hold sway over our actions, affecting everything from emotional relationships to world politics. My work looks at how we set up systems to navigate life in this world, how we see ourselves, how we relate personally and socially to each other, and how we negotiate with nature and our physical environment through science and technology.

I build mixed media constructions, usually around photographic imagery. My work takes on a wide variety of formats and is often sculptural. I use all types of photographic materials, both my own and found, which I frequently alter or physically manipulate – painting, peeling, cutting them up, etc. I integrate the images into some combination of objects and raw materials (both cast-off and new), a process that culminates in the formulation of entirely new, fabricated, hybrid objects.