Even the simplest of communications is fraught with potential for being misunderstood. Everything is open to interpretation. The means for dissemination have never been more accessible yet clarity and consensus are as elusive as ever. My recent work grows out of a fascination with our irrepressible compulsion to connect and communicate despite these difficulties.

Everyday materials and familiar activities frame the quixotic gestures and grand proclamations at the center of my work. Disposable plastic cups, covered in hand-written diary entries, filled with colored water and covering every horizontal surface in my studio become both low-tech blog and painting system. A pair of hands patiently and methodically stacks tiny state shaped pieces of white paper into a map of the US. As the map builds, the cohesiveness and accuracy declines until it begins falling out of the tightly framed shot. Recent text installations, planted in front of transitional urban spaces, use the voices we use and encounter day to day: the choppy shorthand of a text message, the overheard conversation detached from any context and the ambiguous inflections of a hastily worded email. Derived from observations of common and fleeting moments, these drawings of ash are placed directly in the path of pedestrian traffic. Each disintegrates and disappears quickly under the rush of ongoing urban life, echoing the temporal and transitory nature of the moments documented and the sites utilized.

The protagonists in my work take on absurd tasks with preposterous or mysterious goals yet are never dissuaded from attempting to carry things through to completion. Laboring in obscurity, seemingly obsessed and doomed to failure, their predicament is commonplace and recognizable. The endless repetition a reflection of our daily lives. By focusing on the under-appreciated relevance and beauty of our dogged persistence, my work serves as an affirmation of the grace of our daily endeavors.