Statement:
The foundation of my practice is based on learning, adaptability, hard-work, local engagement, as well as my proclivity to work with places and their communities. I use my critical viewpoint as an outsider in order to identify what makes sites unique and create works that cannot be produced elsewhere. Each project necessitates that I learn new skills, adapt to the locality, push my own physical limits and develop new relationships in order to make the work successful. I see this as an ongoing research-based process which looks to develop site-specific works while addressing contemporary global problems. Each project aims to expand simple definitions of art into hybridized manifestations of installation, architecture, engineering, activism, new media, design and dialogical methodologies. Projects become experiments in social design and creative placemaking which are used to interact with, learn from and give back to their local environment.
There is no defining theme, concept, or material that my work is limited to and it cannot be summarized in an elevator pitch. I allow my curiosity and tenacity to drive my practice and hope to inspire others. I value my works’ ability to stand on their own conceptual footing as well as the labor that each has been imbued with.
