 
I consider my installations to be intellectual conversations. But they don't communicate in textual and verbal terms. They posit that something more can be successfully shared through temporal and multi-sensory experience, challenging our tendency to rely on text based knowledge. My role in the conversation is mapping out a starting point. It is not an answer, it is just my subjective, but sincere take on information that I want to share. The information can take forms that symbolic communication can't express, such as a re-contextualized physical environment. My current conversation is about destruction. I don't want to lead the viewer with my value judgments, but rather challenge the audience to find their own associations and meanings. My studio acts as a laboratory for a deeper understanding of our destructive nature, and a place to find where I stand in this world; physically, mentally, ethically, and politically. It feeds the finished installations which in the end, collage together dismantled objects, surround sound, references to domestic spaces, theatrical lighting, paintings, photographs, and soon video work. Ultimately, I want the viewer to respond to the objects and empathetic capabilities of the space, in their own subjective way.
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