Handmade furniture is deconstructed, as I attend to traces of its craftsmanship. I have a sense of nostalgia for the embodied modes of learning that have ceased to be passed down through generations. Natural forms such as shells, seaweed and pebbles are paired with similarly weathered washed-up plastics. Becoming indistinguishable, their seductive aesthetic reflects the hidden detritus and pollutants pervading the planet.     

The three-dimensional ‘drawings’ that arise, foreground social and ecological issues. I give material form to intangible memories, presenting reincarnations of a fragmented past to be reconsidered in the context of a technological age.  I am concerned with the production of ‘stuff’; the endless by-products of being human; and the commodified condition of contemporary life. By transforming discarded materials often devoid of present-day function, my time and activity give them new purpose and value.