SELECTED WORKS, 2001-07

There is both affection and mistrust for nostalgic objects that may exist as fiction, or a distortion of memory. When something familiar is twisted into an uncomfortable place, one can forget how it was before.

In video, it can be a reframing of scenes from a movie so that a character no longer appears, or focusing on backdrops that convey emotions without a human presence — billowing curtains, a spiral staircase. The realization of these gaps and holes conjures a feeling that sticks in your throat — the absences are made palpable; they are a way of describing loss.
In sculpture, it is evoking an emotional response through use of the viscerally tactile. A simultaneous experience of attraction and aversion is set in order to connect objects and spaces with our own sense of the physical body.