My work focuses on the interaction between industrial/technological systems and the natural world, finding human
society in their overlap. Very much rooted in the phasing of object into material and back to object again, my work
is ordered around the post-modern space at the edge of streets and roads, where industrially-made objects from
around the globe come to rest, abandoned by human desire. They teeter on the fringe of technical functionality while
tree roots and enterprising weeds work past them towards the sunlight at the center of the road. My materials lists are
a Who's Who of the roadside: tires, toilets, bits of brick, shell casings, shopping bags, asphalt. My work is centered
on the interactions of non-living systems with a nature that includes humans and our desires for food, shelter and
procreation. For example, at first glance "Birth Control for the New Economy" deals with social issues of cyclical
violence. On closer inspection, it is also about the impact economic and governmental systems that disseminate
scientific birth control or military/economic violence have on humans in our capacities as living, breeding and
dying animals.

Another example, "Goodbye to All That" is part of a project I am exploring. It comes out of a process of writing
"open letters to the internal combustion engine", an active mediation of the special relationship between people
and the engine. This piece imagines an engine magically negotiating its own phasing from functional infrastructure
to habitat, with humans having given up its custody. Driving much of what moves in petroleum-based
systems, the engine is not just a central love and aspiration of humanity: it is possibly our most important love
ever, in scope and impact. Much of the work that is currently on my plate explores human desire and consequence
inside us, at the touch point of life and technology.

As a person, I take my inspiration from grass in the cracks, elephants who can imitate the sounds of highways,
and from the human beings whose brains are as opposable as their thumbs.