The built environment is the vocabulary, and often the site and materials, of my work. These pieces quietly draw attention to the way things are put together, and highlight the spaces “in between” which are unseen or under-utilized as sites for contemplation. By inversion, addition to, removal from, or reconfiguration of existing elements in a room—the floor, corners, walls—I expose the expectations we have for the built environment and the ways in which human-made spaces and structures interact with forces of nature like the shifting of land, the pressures of gravity, the passing and layering of time. Within the phenomenological response to this work is the friction between our assumptions and ideals for the built environment and its imperfect, impermanent reality.
