My work primarily revolves around the concepts of environmental concerns and time. These themes inspire me as they represent an objective external world or principle which surrounds each of us. Yet, there is a relationship, a connection, that each individual has with environment and time that is entirely subjective. I find that these relationships, whether subjective or objective, are often overlooked until something out of the ordinary or landmark occurs, such as a devastating historic storm in relation to environment or a birth or death in the case of time. But whether we are aware or not we are constantly connected to our environment and time.

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The interconnectedness of ourselves and the things external to ourselves is vitally important to how we perceive and act out our lives. It isn’t easy, even for me, to recognize the impact these themes have on my daily life and the effect that I, in turn, have on them. In my work, I seek to understand the functions of environment and time and our place and part in them, redefining how we see ourselves and how we view our external relationships.

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Mediums of indexicality, the phenomenon of a sign pointing to (or indexing) some object in the context it occurs, are important for me in this continued search for understanding. For example, photography is one medium that indexes light, which is an actual measurement of time, and the environment that it captures representationally. Ceramics, for me, is also indexical of the human hand and can correspond to the idea of the organic body in my work. I feel that the symbiotic relationships that I have with my chosen materials during the process of creation is a reflection of my concepts.