My recent body of work explores the geopolitical landscape through drawing and sculptural installation. I conduct extensive research on each project, --through on the ground site visits, aerial flyovers, photographic documentation, interviews, internet mining and satellite imagery. All of the work and elements within it are completely sculpted by hand, creating a more intimate and controllable result than by way of digital methods.

Employing a combination of natural and industrial materials, I am interested in articulating humankind's desire to take command over the earth, revealing distinct conflicts with ecology, politics and ourselves in free-standing sculptures and large-scale installations that utilize architectural space in a distinct, powerful and imposing manner.

Sculpture is a medium that is real and tangible to me. It allows me to create a three-dimensional world for the viewer to both enter and be encompassed by. The landscapes are simultaneously real and subliminal. They are both beautiful and devastating, as well as refined and abstracted. I like these kinds of dualities since they reveal that things are not always what they seem.

I employee formal elements of sculpture such as scale (both miniaturized and massive) and perspective (forced and the separation of grounds.) Each decision directs the spectator both conceptually and physically. My large sculptural installation work allows me to interact architecturally with any given exhibition space and channel the viewer into a particular position or pattern of viewing. In the work Broken Landscape the exhibition space was divided just as the border it represented, allowing viewers to choose a side to view from.

I have always been interested in landscape as a subject and frequently reference the historical genre of landscape painting and its accepted, sublime beauty. But I am further interested on how presupposed meanings change how we look at the land.

My work and research seeks to facilitate a better mutual understanding of our shared social, political, environmental and cultural climate through artistic practice and discourse in order to create positive changes both within our local communities and an international arena. My sculptures are put forth to produce a broader and more global conversation.