Statement

The human relationship with the external world is a perplexing arrangement. We are an ancillary, yet insubordinate and often destructive element of our surroundings. As occupiers of the world we reconfigure our surroundings to suit our needs. At the same time, our behaviors, movements, and structures are shaped within the world's framework. Through this osmotic process the boundaries between our creations and the non-human world become smudged and odd arrangements arise. Physical manifestations of this process can be seen as conscious and unconscious mimickery and repetitions, strange alterations and repurposings, and representations that exist within and interact with the world they reference. This work explores the human relationship with the world as the corporeal, precarious, and somberly amusing exchange that it is, and muses over the implications of this arrangement.

Existing as mobile bodies that act and create, we construct and influence our surroundings. At the same time, our behaviors, movements, and structures are shaped within the world's framework. My work investigates the interactions and knitting of humans with the world. Searching for arrangements that display the processes of the world and the conflicting and complimentary ways in which we attempt to alter or accept them, I call attention to the odd and multiple interactions between commonplace objects and environments. As I explore the spaces between what I assume about the world and the realities of how the world exists, I reconsider the relationships between these objects and their environment. This work stems from an attempt to understand my own occupation in the world and my role as a mobile body among the world of objects.