My artistic practice revolves around collage and assemblage in the form of sculpture, drawing and painting, rather than cutting out or arranging fragments to form a larger work. I collect moments, memories, textures and colors and combine them into a single work often juxtaposing textures and surface appearances where they do not belong. My work is often memory based and explores moments that catch my eye, and imagined objects that linger in my head, as well as the sensory relationships that we have with the natural world. We exist in the world with learned expectations of our sensory experiences. I can picture an orchid’s white petals spattered with a deep fuschia. I replicate the orchid but swap out the white and fuchsia for a bright orange that fades into red. I am often pulling the background forward and pushing the foreground back, creating a spatial interplay between the subject and its environment. Negative space becomes positive space, and subject matter in the foreground is made up of the materials of the background. I enjoy working with color and surface combinations that have an almost vibrational quality when combined.