I am driven by questions of engagement. What do we notice in the world around us, and why? If components of our everyday space were altered or removed altogether, would most people take note? These questions have led me to make artwork that offers a moment of fantasy and slowing down while reconsidering the spaces we engage and inhabit. 

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In my current body of work, I create miniature scenes that point to a world tucked inside our own, hidden away in forgotten spaces. These scenes contain recognizable spaces like reading rooms and graveyards but on a minuscule scale. These locations are habitable, but whatever creatures may live here never reveal themselves.

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Room is left for the viewer to question and create these beings for themselves. What do they look like? Do they look like humans? Are they hiding for a moment or abandoning their homes? This moment offers a break from the mundanity of our fast-paced, narrow-focused Post-Ford industry world. I want the viewer to question, answer, and create this scene they have discovered into their own world, personal and individual to each viewer. A direct opportunity to imagine is gifted to the viewer as if to be a kid again making fantasies in their head.

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Accompanying the tucked-away miniatures are large-scale black and white ink drawings. These works expand the world of the miniatures, with twisted and winding lampposts extending into the underground and books morphing into buildings. The black plane with the world emerging from it creates a sense of infinity and continuing as to what is beyond the border. These large works give viewers another avenue for slowing down with reminiscence of these beings tucked into the drawings waiting to be discovered. Discoveries made through these drawings come back and further expand the miniatures in our physical space.