My creative exploration focuses the spotlight on the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life: eating, cleaning house, reading books, etc, in attempts to identify the impact those experiences leave on my psyche. One cannot control what information will leave a lasting impression, nor when one will be struck by Proust’s mèmoire involontaire. My recent series of sculptures entitled Dream House are spaces to facilitate involuntary memory akin to Gaston Bachelard’s ideas of oneirism and daydreaming within simple domestic environments. With these installations there are accumulations of a found material massed in a simple mound that acts as a shell for an interior domestic space for the viewer to enter and perhaps get lost in their own reverie.

By making artwork from an accumulation of materials and experience, the work will always have multiple interpretations available depending upon the history of the materials and the history of the viewer. By creating works from items of questionable value I challenge myself to take on the responsibility of creating value for the artwork as a result of my creative labor power. The artist can exercise their transformative energies to materials, concepts and cultural paradigms to create a unique experience in time. My aesthetic approach is to compose “stuff” into works that tell a narrative or create an intimate space of retreat.

— Statement about the work excerpted from a longer artist statement, 2008