In my most recent sculptures and prints, I’ve been pursuing the idea that an invisible landscape of communication exists all around us. Wireless networks, email inboxes, voicemails, radio and t.v. signals are all examples of the types of communications that I aim to give a material form. I’m interested in these particular forms because they are manipulated to such an extreme degree by humans; they are sent to the ends of the earth, under the seas, into space, and create a vast network all around us. In my work, I explore the ubiquitous nature of communication and express its pervasiveness as a physical presence; man-made forms of communication are compared and contrasted to the natural world of communications (i.e., bird calls, animal markings, electrocommunication, bioluminescence, chemical signaling). Visually, I illustrate ideas of our natural environment as a medium of aural- and tele- communications, and the sending and receiving that is inherent in all forms of communication.

Most of my installations and sculptures have been constructed solely out of prints on paper, which I utilize for their relationship to communication throughout history. Nearly all of my projects, in a sense, translate a particular message that I have sent or received; some formal element of each piece acts as an alphabet that allows me to embed a communication that has passed to me through email, voicemail, or instant messenger into the artwork. I imagine these works as as a sort of simultaneous message/landscape; through translation of messages, I hope to achieve a sense of something factual existing in my works, a sort of backdrop of information, upon which I can explore the more interpretive elements of language that allow for personal communication.

My recent investigation into the relationship of telecommunications to the animal and insect world has made me imagine the communications as flocking and swarming, a part of our environment that, although it is invisible, has a real, live presence. Looking forward, I plan to explore the physical, animate nature of this all-encompassing, invisible, minute yet enormous landscape.