My work includes installation, collage, video, and an increasing interest in ongoing performative actions that allow for the integration of these and other practices.

Hophornbeam Hill is a series of questions, photographs, walks and writings that were, and are still being made based on having spent August of 2009 living in the woods of Vermont with my daughter.  I pitched a two room tent, had a campfire and a cooking stove, and walked everyday to the river to get water.  This project began as a reaction to the problem of living and working in the city.  Frustrated with my inability to construct a studio and dwelling I decided to see what would happen if I picked an arbitrary spot in the woods, and began building from scratch. Doing this has allowed me to address the desire for and impossibility of utopian, alternative and escapist impulses in contemporary social structures.

In 1748, Giambattista Nolli created what is known as the Nolli map of Rome. The Nolli map represents the city as a series of interconnected spaces where private and public mesh, and one can travel freely between both built and un-built environments.  In dialogue with this concept, I began an investigation into the American notion of the spare key.  I entered a dozen or so houses by locating and using the spare key (2005).  These actions existed only in their documentation, and allowed for a critique of the surplus wealth and contained space implicit in the notion of a contemporary dwelling.

  
My earlier work relies on standardization as a means of questioning the ways we divide, designate and experience space, and the structures we create to contain it.  My site-specific installations are dialogues with places; brief conversations with a space or a landscape. The divided space installations are an investigation into the volume of domestic and commercial spaces in urban environments. I use string and fabric to divide spaces into sections to demonstrate the amount of wasted, overlooked or inaccessible space.  I used plastic balls as building blocks for the "ball structures" I floated in both the Hudson and the East rivers.  

My collages and videos address unnecessary wastefulness by imagining the fate of massive quantities of manufactured goods - sneakers, televisions, traffic cones - that are lost in cargo spills in the Pacific Ocean.