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How do we determine whether objects are useful or useless, ordered or disordered? These distinctions are never fixed, but remain fluid, shaped by perception and shifting contexts through which we interpret them. My practice centers on manufactured construction materials as objects typically valued only for their assigned functions: to build, support, or reinforce. These materials carry overlooked physical and visual qualities—textures, surfaces, colors, patterns, and forms and are rarely considered beyond their utility.
Through experimental practices that include mixed-media works and installations, I draw out these under-appreciated qualities and explore how notions of order and disorder manifest in these materials. By physically disrupting their conventional context and accentuating their formal qualities, I encourage viewers to engage with these materials as dynamic, transformative matter with potential for hybridity and discovery. By shifting their context, I reimagine their expressive capacities outside of their prescribed use and open them to new interpretations. My practice is a reflection of how transformation disrupts definitions, breaks down preconceived notions, and encourages a space of experimentation. I invite viewers to reconsider the everyday through curiosity and uncertainty as a broader framework for perception, identity, and lived experience. How do we determine whether objects are useful or useless, ordered or disordered? These distinctions are never fixed, but remain fluid, shaped by perception and shifting contexts through which we interpret them. My practice centers on manufactured construction materials as objects typically valued only for their assigned functions: to build, support, or reinforce. These materials carry overlooked physical and visual qualities—textures, surfaces, colors, patterns, and forms and are rarely considered beyond their utility. Through experimental practices that include mixed-media works and installations, I draw out these under-appreciated qualities and explore how notions of order and disorder manifest in these materials. By physically disrupting their conventional context and accentuating their formal qualities, I encourage viewers to engage with these materials as dynamic, transformative matter with potential for hybridity and discovery.By shifting their context, I reimagine their expressive capacities outside of their prescribed use and open them to new interpretations. My practice is a reflection of how transformation disrupts definitions, breaks down preconceived notions, and encourages a space of experimentation. I invite viewers to reconsider the everyday through curiosity and uncertainty as a broader framework for perception, identity, and lived experience. |