My work is based on the transformation of random ephemera gathered from the everyday.  Through the process of transformation the original meaning of the object changes.  The mundane, that served a particular function at one time or another, is given place and reverence.  It transcends its identity.

The selection of all found objects reference time, space or human interaction – they become part of a “philosophical anthropology.”  These objects are chosen because they hold deeper connections to people or places regardless of their external importance. Transforming them is an act of shifting the energy that they hold, similar to a shamanistic practice.  The finished piece becomes a tool in a larger language and often references anything from artifact, fetish, healing object to an arcane language. I use many different materials such as wax, entrails, plaster, paint, thread and fabric.  I combine the old with the new.  The hand is evident upon things mass-produced and machine made.  Craftsmanship is a byproduct of my meditative and intuitive approach.

I like to think of the work and myself as taking the everyday world as a starting point. David Hume states that expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in the mind.  And expectation is associated with habit.  The child perceives the world as it is without putting more into things than he experiences.