My art is a marriage of industrial or utilitarian materials and the sensuous forms of nature. I utilize these materials, many of which are found, recycled, or salvaged, in an ongoing effort to reveal beauty in unlikely places. The surfaces or forms constructed in my studio reflect and emulate the beauty and mystery of nature and natural phenomena, akin to the idea of biomimicry. I love nature’s precise order as well as its captivating dishevelment (think tangled vines or water rushing over jagged rocks). Observations of this energy and freedom contained within structure continually direct my creative process.

I combine precise techniques, such as wrapping wire with narrow fabric strips, with improvisational, seemingly random creation of organic forms.  Working intuitively, my process involves decision making at every point. By manipulating materials in ways and for contexts for which they were never intended, such as crumpling wire fencing or mangling neatly rolled wire into organic forms, I embrace creative transformation to form objects and installations that are alluring and nourishing to the imagination.