Resting in a space between fiction and reality, the work I create narrates place with an interest in objects and imagery related to and surrounding home. Investigations of time, safety, impermanence, and absence are suggested through installation, rendered and distorted floral patterns, wax tableware melts, preserved or altered objects, in addition to the drawn form.

My work questions the reliability of emotion and human recollection. How might the way our minds portray the truth in experiences of the past differ from how they actually existed? What small, minute portions of once seemingly limitless spaces can we still recall clearly? Do the objects, fixtures, colors, and materials we once knew shift or distort based on or current, individual attachment or disassociation?

Through varied media, I draw attention to what is now gone and what remains. The works all end with remnants; residual detritus of persons in spaces once called home.

• The Hour of Lead