My current practice centers on data materialization (2017-ongoing). I translate scientific, social, or environmental data into physical art objects and installations. Rather than seeking legibility, I use data as raw material, forging conceptual and material connections that encourage reflection and interpretation. By layering abstraction, process, and fabrication, I create forms where meaning emerges from the interplay of data and materials such as metal, paper, clay, and even ice, inviting ethical inquiry and emotional engagement. My work bridges craft, technology, and research, offering alternative ways to experience and contemplate complex realities through tangible, resonant objects and aiming to foster new conversations between art, science, and lived context.

Ice-Melt Worry Beads (2023-ongoing) is a site-specific traveling project exploring the intersection of human emotion and scientific data to evoke dialogue around the realities of climate change. The NOAA Sea Ice Index (rates of change over time) has been abstracted and translated into a bead form to be cast in ice from local water sources.

This project is rooted in my personal anxieties about climate change and is enriched through direct engagement at data-sourcing sites. This visual travel journal functions as an ongoing installation and performance, with each iteration connecting geographically distant communities and scientific realities through shared artistic experience. The project not only materializes complex environmental data but also embodies the interconnectedness of climate change and the profound links between art, science, and human response.

Installations (2018-2020)

RubberMADE (2007 - 2012) is a collection of objects, interactive and wearable, inspired by the exploration of the mid-20th-century American culture of consumerism and processed goods. The catalyst for this body of work was a curiosity about the history and industrial uses of silicone rubber and the relationship this synthetic material has with a 1950s-style post-war "suburban" ranch house. It is this relationship that has fueled the forms, colors, and titles of the works in the RubberMADE collection.

Bubbles Brooch (2004) was acquired in 2008 for the permanent interactive collection of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, now the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Bubblewrap (2008) was acquired in 2015 for the permanent collection of Craft + Design of the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, NC