Everyday objects carry meanings we project onto them. They are charged with our energy and they can be very intimate ­­— they convey our memories and relationships. They have a primary use that’s lost when we change their form in the art making process. Thus, when we impede their utilitarian function we create a different link to us, a new meaning is added. That transition of the material from one state to another is what interests me.

I use found materials like furniture, TV screens, recycled clothes, fabrics, yarns, and aim to reimagine the preconceived notions of these materials. Therefore, by taking them apart, reducing them to their elements, and manipulating their form I produce a personal narrative to portray a feeling, a concept, or a statement — a comment on consumerism and materialism, fragmentation of one’s home, separation of the self are some of the ideas that are communicated through the work.