Columbus, OH
My favorite thing about making art is the making. It’s the creative process that I love most and the discoveries that happen along the way. Nature inspires nearly everything I create. My work explores the beauty of objects whose histories are muddled, hidden and lost. Things that are old, dusty and weathered, handwritten words in forgotten volumes and stoic faces peering out from frozen snapshots. The bird-like figures who appear throughout are the guardians of it all. Guardians of dreams, guardians of history, guardians of people and place. Each piece is built from a collection of smaller parts and each smaller part is integral to the identity of the larger work. When it all comes together; the objects, the birds and the decorative marks, new identities are created, new stories are told and new treasures are born.
