My work occupies the edgelands where domestic meets wild, art meets craft, and past meets present. I scour my surroundings for cast-off objects, building materials, and wood from trees growing in the creases of my neighborhoods. These finds hold ideas and become charms connected to place and memory.

I am responsive to materials and sensitive to their intrinsic qualities. I break down, resynthesize, and recontextualize things that have had a past life into new forms. A mid-century end table found along a Minneapolis street, a waterlogged sheet of particleboard from our old shed in Missouri, sassafras trees growing out of the hedge in our current backyard – the butting-together of familiar subjects from dissimilar times creates temporal anomalies and unexpected tensions. Using traditional woodworking techniques, I carve and construct replicas of personal objects and subjects pulled from nature. I inlay fragments of found wood into secondhand panels and the surfaces of my sculptures. Joining these components, I create compositions aimed at softening the margins separating moments and perceptions. I want my work to punch through time – to inhabit a landscape between ‘here’ and ‘there.’