HereHear, 2020
Hand cut paper, adhesive, epoxy
68 Diameter x 4 D inches


Working from letters to words to phrases, the Word Wheels consider the way that linguistic meaning derives from pairing, ordering, and rearranging. Using these techniques, these works support unfamiliarity and confusion to create meaning built on association rather than difference. In these works the circular shape closes the space, creating an ongoing repetition and the ability to start from many points, while the center exists as a blank space for stillness and exploration.

MoonShine, 2017
Hand-cut paper, epoxy resin
60 Diameter x 3 D inches

MoonShine is the follow-up work to WonderLust in my Word Wheel series. At 60 inches in diameter, the scale of the work relates to the scale of the human body and uses the circular form and wheel-spoke structure to visually depict the content of sun, moon, and light. Within a domestic setting, the work’s size is meant to imbue it with a similar presence to that of the sun and moon in the desert landscape of Moab, Utah - ever present forms that shape life.

WonderLust, 2016
Hand-cut paper
29 3/4 Diameter 1 D inches

In WonderLust the words “wander” and “wonder” are combined with “lust,” “lost,” and “last” to reference notions of adventure and homesickness. Reading these phrases in varying orders, causal and temporal relationships emerge: If you have wanderlust and lust for wonder then you might want to wander lost but then will your wonder be lost?

Always Never Here There, 2015
Oilstick and graphite on vellum, light
9 1/2 H x 9 1/4 W inches

Always Never Here There toggles between a dark representation and an illumination of relationship dynamics, desire, and rootlessness. To the person you are having dinner with, when you are on your phone you are always there and never here, but to you, looking at the photos of people all over the world as you scroll your social media feed, you are always here and never there.