My work is rooted in paper cutting. I use a pencil and an exacto knife. The process is reductive, always beginning with a drawing.

My drawings are a like a schematic, charting negative and positive space, blocking out the shapes that will be cut away with my blade.

What emerges needs to have both structural integrity to retain its form as well as work aesthetically - having a “flow”.

Some cut-outs are folded in on themselves, fitting together with interlocking tabs to create dimensional objects. Others are hung as singular pieces, utilizing cast shadows. Some are used as stencils to create negative images, or cut in multiples to build larger environments, or wheat pasted in the street.

My current work is centered around the drawings themselves, which until now have mostly been a means to and end. Traditionally I destroy my drawings, cutting away at them to create a singular cut-out.

There is a rawness and an intimacy in them, and for a long time I sought the clean lines of my cuts to make smooth those rougher, rawer, parts.