I am deeply interested in mechanisms of meaning-giving, and how social and cultural ideas materialize through objects within material culture. My work is immensely informed by objects and their materiality - using a plethora of mediums to re-make, manipulate and explore objects as fluidly as possible. I think of the object as a synecdoche; “unfolding” it to represent a whole world. Considering social and cultural context, I am especially interested in the symbolist tradition and the chain of appropriation. Studying ideas of design and aesthetics, I look closely at how source materials and images are flattened as a mere signifier – a thin veneer imbuing objects with meaning in the most superficial sense.

Currently, I am looking at the impact technology has on our ideas of nature and vice versa. I am interested in how technology and nature shape each other within a reciprocal relationship, and how human ethics and aesthetics, as subjective aspects, are imposed onto nature. Considering tool objects and contemporary mass production culture, I find and expose biases that promote a binary gaze. One which divides the world into “natural/artificial,” “handmade/mass-produced”. In this regard, I am interested in ideas of unlearning and resisting a discourse of mastery as potent tools for disarming biased thinking, and reclaiming a freedom to unlearn, and embrace uncertainty.