Artist Statement

For 13 years, I practiced law, before finally accepting that my passion is for art. I returned to school, obtaining a BFA degree in sculpture from SFAI in 2018.

My art explores questions I have about our individual and collective societal experience, often focusing on difficult issues, such as time's passage, gender, and justice. Steel is my primary medium. I am drawn to challenge the "maleness" of its historical use in industry, infrastructure, and art. Through my art, I want to encourage people to ruminate about their lives and how we fit together in our society. 

My pieces are my effort to initiate that conversation. Because they are handmade, although well-crafted, they have a humility not present in the perfection of commercialized production. They also have a human connection, whether through the work's overt reference to bodily presence or through the viewer's actual or imagined bodily interaction with the work. My hope is that these qualities force a casualness with the viewer enabling them to ponder, with empathy and imagination, new answers to old questions.