I find inspiration when traveling as I am forced to navigate and process what may be only sensorially perceptible. In this processing, the assumptions that I make about the relationships between other people, other places, other things and myself are called into question.

In my work, I attempt to contemplate the almost futile but critical nature of processing these relationships and these questions that arise. In this contemplation, I have found the grid as a system one can seemingly impose on any situation to comfortably visually process and categorize information. In my work, I also employ pictoral and material illusions to explore how the grid responds to the evasive.

My current body of work seeks to experimentally reconfigure mementos I collected when travelling that, when I returned home to the United States, have struggled along with me to integrate into another context. The materials I choose to work with take cue directly from my mementos as well as the nature of the questions I ask while exploring their materiality: From these mementos, can I make objects that reflect my personal relationship to them? Can I make objects that take into account their present day location and subsequent manifestation as an art object?