I am a collector born to a family of collectors. Every object has a story, and if it has lived long enough, has many stories. I use these stories freely yet reverently, having long been a spiritual materialist: I feel for objects, and use them like brushstrokes of emotion. Hence the birth of the Packhorse series, where intrepid equines bear a variety of loaded baggage holding both meaning and metaphor.

Some of my first successful sculptures referenced African Kongo “power figures” but also took on US consumerist culture as I fetishized Bart Simpson and family, Batman, Barbie, Barney and other beloved pop cultural figures.

My collections of 108 objects directly reference Buddhist and Hindu prayer necklaces, or Malas, both of which typically contain 108 beads. Completed collections are toy ambulances, found knit hats, black and white wishing stones, graduated round pebbles and miniature liquor bottles.

I consider all my works to be a form of secular altar- a quality of attention brought to bear on objects and materials that bring them unmistakably to life.