Artist Statement

My practice asks, how can we preserve what is lost? My work is relational- grounded in ecology, food, and textiles. Through sculpture and installation, I work to embody, reinterpret, and hold these traditions. I use alchemy to examine the relationship between our hands, mouth, and the land, working to deindustrialize food systems by returning to slow ritual.

I work with what I can hold at a time, allowing the body to serve as an instrument for proportion.  I collect materials we cast off in cycles of disposability- such as nylon and avocado skins- as well as the tools we use to consume, like spoons. I center acts of convergence, viewing my sculptures as graftings seeking wholeness. The culminating forms become relics of the time, touch, and memory it takes to synthesize fragments.

I derive materials and processes from generational meditations. I work to remember my Lemko, Italian, and Quebecois lineage by reinterpreting family traditions from Pysanky eggs, to farming and jam making. I often pair food scraps with synthetic or industrialized materials to draw attention to these systems and the labor and extraction at their core. By confronting this tension, we recover a tempo rooted in shared abundance and conscious consumption.