Landing

I use the geometry of found and reconfigured architectural materials to structure spiritual encounters with space. I build with wood, metal, concrete, glass, color and light– tending the space between formal elements, too, like the intervals and omissions that shape meaning in a poem. Public artwork, sculpture and installation are the core components of my practice; I occasionally integrate photography, video and writing. I grew up in the Nevada desert in a Catholic community and sought the expanse of the Great Basin for help orienting to my gender and queerness. Outside the constrictions of language, religion and culture, the desert’s vastness taught me an internal spaciousness: I came to know myself in relation to expanse, scale, and light. I offer viewers similar visual and existentially orienting experiences through my work. The pieces are temporal, dependent on the time of day and orientation of the body to the work. They fragment, organize, shift, and highlight aspects of their site. Sometimes I include text or image–like a fingerprint–to specify the consciousness of a subjective narrative. I also work as a licensed clinical psychotherapist. I am curious about the materiality of thought, and the way somatic experiences can redefine personal narrative. We all create protective fracturings of the self that become limiting; layers of conscious and unconscious awareness that rigidify. My work supports a mindful process where soma (body) and psyche (mind) creatively renegotiate that fragmentation. By carefully placing, layering and interrupting found architectural elements, I provide an opportunity for new compositional relationships and rhythms within a site. Found materials bear the marks of their history, exposure and my interventions. Wholeness is not fixed, but rather an ongoing movement between, toward, among, and away.