I am an emerging artist working with photography, video, and sculpture. Through still-life
photography and sculptural assemblage, my practice recontextualizes familiar materials while
exploring an anxiety surrounding temporal moments and digital preservation.
Still life imagery of everyday objects comprises my photographic practice. Objects are paired in
an unusual fashion. These compositions offer odd juxtapositions, producing an uncanny effect.
Reflected through this unsettling emotion is a modern-day anxiety surrounding photographic
preservation within a digital society. By photographing fleeting compositional set-ups, I preserve
physical, temporal moments through immaterial digital photography.
My sculptural practice re-contextualizes found objects through the juxtaposition of materials.
Found objects are paired with industrial materials such as wood, steel, and concrete while
recalling associated cultural narratives. Cold steel is juxtaposed against soft materials such as
fabric, contrasting industrial strength against comforting domestic.
Inside the gallery walls, the viewer is forbidden from touching the work, forcing them to imagine
the physical feelings the materials elicit. The materials chosen provoke a faux sensory
stimulation within the viewer. This sensory experience prompts the viewer to consider their own
physical strength, in relation to the materials. Bending tempered steel is physically impossible,
whereas elastic is physically manipulatable.