projects.
about.
My work begins with attention to what a place has already accumulated — organic debris, discarded matter, the residue of use and neglect. I collect, reconfigure, and reposition these fragments rather than manufacture new forms, treating each site as something to be read before it is worked on.
The underlying concern is ecological: pollution, overpopulation, and the excess we generate and discard, particularly around marine and coastal ecosystems. I'm drawn to flora and fauna not as decorative reference but as evidence — organisms that register the pressure we put on their environments through adaptation, damage, or disappearance. Working primarily with reclaimed and eco-conscious materials is a way of keeping that evidence intact rather than concealing it behind something new.
Research shapes the direction of each piece as much as material handling does. Before anything is built, I try to understand what is actually at stake in a given site or system — what's specific to it, what's symptomatic of something larger, and what a viewer needs to encounter physically rather than be told. The work doesn't illustrate an ecological argument; it tries to make instability, accumulation, and imbalance something the body registers directly — through scale, placement, and proximity.
Nature, in this sense, functions as a philosophy rather than a subject: a way of reading structure, cause, and consequence in the world around me, and translating that reading into spatial and material terms. The resulting works remain unresolved and contingent by design — closer to an ongoing condition than a finished object — because the processes they respond to (contamination, growth, erosion, collapse) are themselves ongoing.
