I grew up moving from place to place, a process punctuated by dramatic cultural transitions: Hawaii to suburban Chicago; Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil to Heber City, Utah; Woking, Surrey, England to Houston, Texas. This process has inspired my long-term investigation of rootlessness, of the experience of moving through space without connecting to it. Consequently, my work investigates spaces from the perspective of an outsider looking in, wherein the viewer is positioned to gaze intimately at things that are temporary, generally ignored, or distorted by memory.
Employing a range of media, my work reenacts the process of searching, linking open landscapes with the experience of wandering, spaces between points on a map with gaps in personal history. Site-specific installations map out seemingly empty spaces, guiding viewers’ gazes toward ignored stories evidenced in cracks, holes and piles of dust. I use repetitive or labor-intensive processes to render fleeting, fragmented images of things often taken for granted. Each piece locates the personal within a context of lack, taking viewers from one place to another, without necessarily taking them anywhere.
