My practice is defined by restless curiosity – exploring materials, processes and trying to make ideas take physical form. My art began with photography as a child with a plastic camera I won at a Christmas Fair. Later I built a darkroom in our house, became the photo-editor of publication in college, served on the documentary photo team at Burning Man and continue to use photography in my work.

Collecting has been central to my joy and my creative process whether gathering items off the street or working with museum collections. I collected my first photo album from the early 1900s when I was a teenager. Plastic cameras, Life Magazines from the 1960s and book collecting soon followed. Deconstructing photographs and books adding paint, layering, sewing and collaging continues to be my process.

From the walls of my Burning Man piece, Unbound: A Library in Transition, came the series Aftermath starting in 2025. Recycling these walls of repurposed books aged by exposure to sun and rain, sanded, painted, cut and reassembled has been an important series for me. As I now layer the walls with paint, I revisit what this large, multi-year project meant to me and the crew who worked on it while I express a new, more distressed, view of our world today. There is a freeness to the painted layer that contrasts with the earlier structured work which expresses a new freedom in my creative life.