My process begins in my studio in an old repurposed textile mill with a mission to find things that don’t always belong, but seem to when brought together.

I make collages that pull images from wildly different contexts: vintage photographs, old technology, animals, locations across the globe, and arrange them until they become something new. The juxtapositions are often absurd on the surface, but the humor or intrigue isn’t the end point. I want to make unexpected connections
feel familiar.

What draws me to collage is its capacity to reveal hidden logic. Images carry cultural weight, emotional associations, and visual rhythms that belong entirely to their original context, until they don’t. When two incompatible worlds share the same frame, something shifts. In my studio, visitors often do a double-take, laugh, then look again. The second look is the most important, when they try to puzzle out what is happening in the work.

I’m fascinated by scale of images. Not just the physical scale, but conceptual scale too. I’m drawn to how the mundane becomes elevated to the level of icon and how normally larger-than-life symbols move into supporting roles and then how it all comes together to make something new.