“… at the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on the continued existence of the corporeal body”
- Andre Bazin, The Ontology of The Photographic Image   

Within cultures and subcultures, a nexus of economics, social ideals, taboos, religion, legal systems, psychology, and individual experiences affects the ways in which people are remembered, as well as the objects that become the surrogates for their existence.

My work investigates the processes we have for remembrance and the leaving of a legacy. Typically using myself as a starting point, I engage with my own personal mortality and familial traditions, experiences, narratives, and memories in a way that foregrounds practices of dying. Some projects are interactive, while others are purely sculptural.  Some of them are ephemeral, while others are more object-based.  All of the work is designed to allow the viewer to determine their relationship with their own end as well as the ends of those around them.  These artworks provide spaces of contemplation, rather than conclusive statements or solutions.

The interest in providing such a space comes out of very personal experiences with death, and having enough distance from such experiences to reflect on them in a way that allows questions to be raised and answered without feeling emotionally overwhelmed. I find these acts of reflection to be invaluable, and am interested in imparting such experiences on others.