“This body of work relates to an ongoing exploration into the relationships or narratives that emerge from my engagement with repurposed materials. Acting as both medium and collaborator, found objects initiate a process of inquiry that shift spatial relationships and assumed narratives, often leading to questions of purpose and value. I am interested in unearthing the ways in which these interventions with organic materials or discarded objects parallel interpersonal and social systems of order, highlighting the interconnection between living systems both human and non-human.The foundation of my practice is built on a relentless compulsion for percipience, an intention which finds itself best supported and realized within the framework of a research-creation practice. I draw inspiration from artist and professor Natalie Loveless's characterization of this methodology as "an aim to aim, not to attain” and from artists whose process-driven work unfolds like a record of response. Loveless's notion of being 'hauled' by curiosity through life aptly describes my approach in the studio and beyond; whether initiated by material observation, or by the lure of a rabbit hole, my practice is grounded in a process of inquiry and pursuit of an embodied comprehension. In finding connections between theory and experience, history and the present, human and non-human relations, the multidisciplinary nature of my practice is described by far more than the mediums with which I choose to explore, but the 'what' and 'how' I find myself engaging them. ”