My work deals with re-contextualization. I am interested in forms and systems that have been established, and then transformed. In my own artwork I often employ sculptural and graphic strategies such as mapping, accumulating, sorting and gridding in order to explore and express a re-contextualization. I find maps and mapping systems which pre-exist as a type of literal representation. I remove these maps from newspapers or magazines and create a new map using alternative organizational cues.

For instance, with Concentric Diptych (pictured above), I’ve removed dozens of maps of the U.S. from their original context by cutting them out along the country’s border. Using the northern border of the United States and its naturally occurring arc I’ve re-mapped the country as a series of six concentric circles. Three of the circles are black and white, and three are colored.