Each object is created from a complex system of knots, tangles, rolls, and weavings composed of hand-braided ropes. The structures convey a story of time measured by labor and record the process of creation. Intuitively formed, the braids leave a physical imprint of labor.

The ropes are fabricated using paper towel. As a mundane household material, paper towel narrates the formal relationship of domesticity to the haphazard tendencies of nature.  As a material that we all touch, use to dry our hands, and casually toss away, it invokes consciousness of tactility, materiality, and temporality.

From the shipped box of paper towel rolls, to braided rope, to dipping the tangles into ceramic slip, each piece goes through its own transformation.  Many of the pieces are affected by the forces of nature like gravity and the chemistry of firing the ceramic pieces. Nature transforms my work from industrial objects into natural objects wielding an industrial physicality.

Subtle idiosyncrasies of the hand are preserved in the surface material. Subtle idiosyncrasies of the mind are preserved in the surface architecture. The intimacy of the conformations honor the integrity that is confined in nature.