My work examines our cultural relationship with manmade objects and constructed spaces, while referencing contemporary design, craft, and the everyday. I create situations that undermine our individual and social relationships with objects. I emphasize this conflict by creating items and experiences that elevate formalism over functionality.

Contemporary design has seen an upsurge in the artful appropriation of conventional icons. This focus transposes the meaning of designed items, from one of streamlined utility and ergonomics towards a fixation on the clever referent. I use this system of signification to create new avenues for engagement with common objects and the everyday landscape. Viewers are confronted by items that refer to both quality and deficiency—desire and indifference.

These representations are composed from lowly materials, such as cardboard, dimensional lumber, and drywall. The contradictions presented by mixing sub-standard materials with quality craftsmanship are compounded by the reduction of common forms to their iconic essence. Familiar items, such as furniture, commodities, and domestic space, become itinerant symbols of cultural meaning.