I work with commemorative and community themes, building installations that refer to living and/or working spaces. My work is informed by a lifetime of visiting house museums as well as experience with research techniques and a strong interest in institutional knowledge and power structures. A topic catches my interest and I begin my research — using bound periodicals and microfilmed newspapers as well as the Internet, interviews and surveys — not knowing how the final form of my work will look. When I’ve got enough information I begin to conceptualize how the installation might look and what I’ll use to build it. I often combine handmade things — mittens, for example — with ready-mades like chairs, tables or beds.

Collecting is another facet of my making life. Wherever I live, my house becomes a space for organic and accretive installation work using objects from my collections – miniature chairs, custard cups, things shaped like pumpkins, and vacuum flasks, to name a few. In my current work, I Live in a Cornell Box, I document these continuously evolving installations through photography.

I consider my work – filled with metaphor and allusion – to be a kind of poetry in physical space: at times epic, lyric or limerick.