Colorful plastic debris, shiny metal shards, used hand tools, and rusty oil cans. These objects embody tensions and conflicts between humanity and nature. My art practice explores the acts and remnants of human intrusions upon the earth. Working with found materials, I create artwork depicting visual aspects of climate change.
Based in Detroit, I am currently working with used toy cars and recycled electrical wires to comment on electric vehicles now under development here. While this “clean” technology pollutes less than gas engines, it presents other environmental challenges. This includes mining of toxic minerals for lithium-ion batteries, their hazardous disposal, and electric grid disruptions while generating extra gigawatts for charging stations.
Both a sculptor and an architect by training, my artworks comment on human transgressions of natural and constructed environments. My multi-disciplinary installations probe the intersections between sculpture, architecture, installation, and land art to comment on humanity’s complicated relationship with nature.