“ Through objects, images, and experiences which are located in both individual and collective memory, my work explores how meaning is generated and where it collects in human life. Materials such as love letters, heirlooms, reclaimed lead, and household dust are units through which experiences such as loss, love, distance, and time are measured. Collective meaning and memory are accessed by way of personal experience, suggesting that people may be connected by the very things most personal to our own lives. Dust, an intimate material formed by the passage of time in a household, becomes a language for loss, memory, and interior life. Love letters which remain long after love itself has passed, become a unit of distance. The weight of scrap lead, passed through generations, becomes a means for measuring the heaviness of childhood. My use of source material binds the work to the world. It forms a passage into collective meaning and memory. It is granted a history which intertwines with other histories. It moves with time. Memory, and what is remembered, reveals where meaning collects. It is both the subject of my work and the means by which it functions.”