I am not a maker. I am an observer, a collector, an interpreter.
I would like my work to be a finger that points to what normally goes unnoticed.
I would like it to celebrate the things we cannot perceive, the things we know but forget.
I would like it to ask questions, not to provide answers.
I would like my work to be seen as a common ground, a surrogate for the universal experience of daily life. By employing devices and processes that are ordinary and familiar, I hope to encourage a level of understanding and participation.
I would like to signify and dispute the supposed monotony and disposability of the everyday, and recontextualize what is conventionally considered mundane. When taken out of context and viewed from a new perspective, the commonplace has the potential to become novel and extraordinary and, most importantly, memorable.
I would like to find a balance between a relational art practice that focuses on social interaction, and a studio-based practice that values a well-crafted object. I would like to make work that instigates a conversation, either through a dialogical or collaborative production process, or with an interactive object or installation.
My work is never made by me alone. Rather, it is like a puzzle that I put together, of which each piece is an opinion, action or idea that has been contributed by another person, possibly even you.