STATEMENT - Installations I’m interested in the power of quiet, hidden things, the things that nobody’s noticing, the hidden infrastructure of our lives. I'm also concerned with memories and ghosts – not ghosts in the supernatural way but in the way that things stay with us, even after they are dead or gone. My installations exist somewhere between painting, sculpture, and drawing, and embody aspects of each. I work directly on the wall with the same materials the wall is made of – plaster, paint, drywall, spackling – to subtly transform the walls from placid, inanimate architectural space to something stranger and less expected. The wall becomes a fluid, fluctuating zone rather than a hard architectural divider; a flimsy barrier between here and somewhere else. Holes, bulges and stains allude to natural processes of transformation and decay. There is a tension between chaos, dissolution, and destruction on one hand, and order, balance, and beauty on the other. The work also deals with absence, empty space, and traces of things that can not be seen or are no longer there. In some installations, there is a sense of a concealed event happening just behind the wall’s surface. This alludes to other intangibles: unseen infrastructures, unrelenting change, and half-intuited realities.