I grew up moving from place to place, a process punctuated by dramatic cultural transitions: Hawaii to suburban Chicago; Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil to Heber City, Utah; Woking, Surrey, England to Houston, Texas. This process has inspired my long-term investigation of rootlessness, of the experience of moving through space without connecting to it. Consequently, my work examines spaces from the perspective of an outsider looking in, wherein the viewer is positioned to gaze intimately at things that are temporary, generally ignored, or distorted by memory.

Employing a range of media, my work reenacts the process of searching, of hunting for evidence of the past in order to build connections to the present. Site-specific installations map out seemingly empty spaces, guiding viewers’ gazes toward ignored stories evidenced in cracks, holes and piles of dust. Inspired by maps, construction plans, official documents and newspaper articles, I use repetitive or labor-intensive processes to render fleeting, fragmented images of things often taken for granted. Each piece locates the personal within a context of lack, taking viewers from one place to another, without necessarily taking them anywhere. It is my hope that the work inspires questions about where we are, physically and psychologically, in relation to what surrounds us.