INTERVALS: Latitude & Longitude 

Without light we can’t see matter—inversely, without matter we can’t see light. This interdependent relationship is the crux of my practice. I’m interested in colloquial references to light as a fleeting presence—a shadow appears, the sun sets, a beam of light enters the room. In reality, we know that light is the constant and we are the variable — it’s our physical world that is shifting, our planet that is rotating, our galaxy that is hurtling through space. Hinging on both quantitative and qualitative knowledge, I use architectural materials and chemical processes to capture moments of material flux and work into these paradoxical understandings. 

Compelled to ground reality in the material world, I contend with the over filtration and diminishing returns of technological mediation by making work that walks the line between image and object. Giving agency to discarded matter, I facilitate its behavior and reveal the accelerating shift of material ecologies. Salvaging and foraging glass from various contexts, I disrupt consumerist binaries, track the lineage of glass, and build assemblages that map new trajectories.  

Glass has a unique ability to harness light, existing in a state between liquid and solid. Light, moreover, has elusive qualities of its own that even physicists have a hard time defining. I rely on these entangled and indeterminate qualities of both glass and light as I attempt to articulate the ineffable, reach for that which is beyond my comprehensive grasp, and narrow the gap between the seen and the unseen, the material and immaterial.