Born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, I have always been compelled to engage with the infrastructural and the post-industrial. As a 260+ year old city, with the most bridges globally, the crisis of infrastructural decay is a pressing matter. I understand the material conditions of this place, and others like it, as a primary influence on my practice - the gathering of fragments, the legibility of patina, and the gradation of one form into others, and old beliefs into new.
I am struck by the parallels of self transformation, and the evolution of place. Using the body and architecture as a fixed point of reference, I engage with notions of the "container" and its boundaries, which denote sites of transformation. My studio practice investigates this boundary as a membrane, which negotiates between the subject and its setting, and the environmental fragments of that setting. This "metabolic" process, as I've come to understand it, carries across differences of scale - the held container, the painting-shaped-object as container, and architecture as the inhabited container.