The cast object is currently the central element that I use in the pursuit of sculpture. I have been consumed with the motif of repetition, both in the act of creation and in the use of the repetitive image, to the point of considering it a disorder. I have been working as if on an assembly line, churning out the same image, looking for eventual meaning. My repetitive and seemingly meaningless actions explore symbolically the passage of time, emotional isolation, and escapist fantasy. The compulsive or obsessive acts required to create the pieces necessitates the omission of other perhaps more traditionally meaningful or useful activities. The viewer is asked to contemplate this notion of what has been lost through the time consuming details of the piece.

There is a qualitative gap between the original and the cast object, however slight. I do not make exact replicas of an original object, nor do I make any attempt at it. There is a peculiarity, a lack of life, to a cast object that I find meaningful. There is also autonomy within the cast object, a sense that this is now an object unto itself, separate from the original. It becomes distinct as a new object in the world while referencing its source. It is with these objects that I consider the consuming repetitive acts of daily living. The work I make responds to the sometimes overwhelming stream of daily chores and consumerist choices we experience in our domestic lives.

Whether the product is a still life created in Scotch tape or a bouquet composed of plaster flowers, I look to the fantastic as a goal in my work. The work is intensely representational in content but without clearly assigned meaning, thus creating a disquiet. In this way I think in a surrealist vein, looking to traditional figures like Eva Hesse and Piero Manzoni, and contemporary figures like Robert Gober and Matthew Barney. The juxtaposition of the seemingly simple streamline objects with this disquiet adds a powerful force to the work, again symbolic of the contrast between the emotional life which defines us as human and the compulsions and minutia that compose our daily lives.