My current body of work looks into the construction and deconstruction of my environment. I am drawn to the repetition, scale and materials that are used to reshape the landscape with highways, buildings and bridges. I am particularly interested in the construction of our infrastructure, which allows us to move more quickly from one place to the next in greater distances and in greater numbers. This faster pace makes it easier to ignore the environment around us, but during times of construction, we are forced to slow down and hopefully, look up.
The temporary boundaries and internal structures that make these massive highways and bridges are prominent in our visual landscape while the construction is happening and just as quickly as they appear, they are gone. The discarded fences and hidden grids draw on my need for order around the chaos. I use this imagery to reconstruct jewelry, sculpture and 2D works of art. I change the perspective, scale and materials of these massive structures in order to make them my own through the processes of printmaking, 3D printing, casting, laser cutting and traditional fabrication techniques.
