Artist Statement

Bogged Down | Magic Proportion

I love finding the magic between juxtaposing the proportions and the oddities of life. Whether it’s the hint of a familiar object or moment, or an abstraction from reality, I call into question our relationships to objects and our surrounding environments. My mind is a playscape, and my work is the ground for it. The slab that holds all the pieces together, the glaze that introduces reference or emotion or the downright foolish and silly shapes. I am intrigued by objects, or parts of any larger ecosystem, and their unexpectedness. By looking at the elemental characteristics of objects and multiplying them, enlarging their scale, and twisting them into something new, I want to make people feel multiple ways; frustration and joy, confusion and wonder. When I am the most excited about working is when I am making ridiculous work, like a pizza rack. It comes from a purely functional idea and then ends up being a sculptural piece that, sure, you could use as a pizza rack it just may not be the pizza rack you envisioned it to be. Humor also allows me the space to not take myself or my work as seriously as many of the issues I care about are​. ​So I can make a piece of furniture that is too small for the average person and have it become a table for a table…for a table. Or I can abstract the peat bog to comment on environmental degradation, and the role that we play in doing so. I seek to observe these natural and man-made forms, to then create an emotional or physical response. Certain scenarios like the degradation of an ecosystem, turn into something fun and curious, whilst still allowing the space to question. My ideas reflect what is happening around us in this very large world; quick and ever-changing. A world that is so full of beauty but trapped in layers of deceit.