My work exists in a realm of relative truths and situated hypotheticals by essentially serving as a bridge between my mind and the real physical world. I create sculptural installations using found, found/altered, as well as fabricated objects to express notions that I desire/prefer to communicate visually rather than verbally. I venture out on solitary searches to collect objects and ideas from particular areas in order to return and create site-specific works. As such, I find my art making process is much like a vision quest. The vision quest is a time for venturing out of the comfort of our past assumptions to find oneself and search for personal meaning through the spiritual and dream world. The importance of the dream to me is that it is free from ordinary rules of consciousness. This allows pure feeling to emerge out of the subconscious in image or sequence form. An explanation of this material can only come from assembling, reassembling and experiencing what is presented for what it truly is. Thus my work embraces imagination and make-believe by applying them to my own realities. In this current digital age images, objects and information alike are all so widely accessible at any second of the day that nothing is left for the imagination to make up. Everything has been proven and nothing is myth so I try to get closer to a time in my life when the fantastic and the unknown were more commonplace. I have developed a cultural atavism that leads me to find meaning in what's left from the past.

Raised in a very traditional Roman-Catholic family, I was constantly exposed to religious imagery that quite frequently used many similar tactics to express its ideals. I think that there is a strong connection between art and religion by means of there constantly being something presented, described, depicted or beautified. Art is a conversation that proves points, sets examples and brings contentment and beauty to the world. Religion does many of these things in very similar ways. I recognize an uncomfortable void which has remained where my religious practice once existed, and have since tried to fill that space with 3-dimensional works that are physical portrayals of my own spirituality. I have created multiple bodies therein which explore themes such as sacrifice, salvation and exaltation. The shrine is typically created as an offering up to a person, thing or idea and my work is, in a way, an offering of myself to the viewer.

I once read a text by curator Richard Flood that stated that "[sculpture]'s association with religion and personification has given it a totemic presence." Often times, my work ultimately materializes into forms reminiscent of the altar, reliquary or shrine and is totemic or iconic. These works relate to the body in multiple ways. Through the recognizability of forms that use furniture, architectural interventions, site-specific placement and body casts as reference, our human bodies are able to cogitate and connect with them. I believe in individuated spirituality and my works insinuate this by weaving themselves into the fabric of the world. By being accessible through the body, my work analyzes the world's tangible elements that allow for the contemplation of the otherworldly or mystical. How do the events that occur in a realm without logical confinement change when represented in real time and space? I try to decipher the images in my head and synthesize them into something cohesive.