Laughing, crying, kissing, blowing, arguing, apologizing are only some of the human actions and dramatic gestures that I explore to create my art. Exploring sculpture, installation, and performance, my work is inspired by universal emotions like sadness, happiness, desire, anger, and remorse. "The Last Word" is typical of my work in that it engages the viewer in a real and unmediated experience, bringing unsuspecting rituals of life under the lens of art. It reads as a street sign, depicting a 'Dear John' voice mail message, exposing an instance of vulnerability through the use of language.

At a glance, my work deals with one-liners, puns and cliché, but it delves deeper exploring concepts of public and private behavior and how these moments manifest in the everyday. "On The Spot" encourages audience participation by using one-liner jokes in a karaoke format. This is the everyday banal humor that makes us smile, smirk and only sometimes laugh out loud. Yet these jokes turn us all into performers from time to time and in this case do so by exposing us in the space of the gallery. In "Blow Outs" a network of paper horns blow out, extending for a split second and then recoil. The cycle repeats over and over again, exhaling and inhaling. Commonplace elements connect us to these situations that I produce - we know these things, we know their use - yet they surprise us and catch us unaware.