I am trying to find the beauty in destruction, reclamation, and unmaking. I consider myself a Process artist, where the journey I take with material from raw product to sculptural form, installation, degradation, and back again is just as important as the artifacts I create, if not more so. Additionally, my work is about processing, about transmuting the sharp, stinging pain of grief and trauma into something still that can be peacefully cohabitated with instead of something that needs to be wrestled away in an attempt to forget. It’s important to me that my viewer see the traces of my hand in my work, but also feel its lingering absence - like walking through a typically bustling neighbourhood in the quiet stillness of dawn. The traces of presence feel a little eerie and almost magical, and sitting a bit longer and looking a bit closer elicits the sensation of being let in on a secret.