Indoor Verbs is a gathering of objects and wall drawings, originally created for the 2013 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition. While certain individual components were prepared ahead of time, the installation as a whole was improvised over a two-day installation period using modified construction materials, furniture fragments, and drawings from my studio. A few elements foraged from the exhibition space also found their way into the finished work.

Selected works completed in 2014 and 2015.


My artistic practice is a hybrid of drawing, object manipulation, and site-responsive construction. Through these overlapping activities I engage with a variety of salvaged materials. I choose to work with things that are marked or shaped by prior use—contractors’ trash, unfinished drawings, detritus found on walks, leavings of other people’s projects. These materials are minimally modified in the studio before they are brought to the exhibition space, where relationships between fragmentary components are developed on-site through intuitive arrangement and re-orientation.

The objects in my installations function like displaced characters or invasive organisms learning to survive in new territory; in negotiating both their individual presences and a cumulative identity, they labor to establish a kind of microclimate within the gallery. This is both a meditation on fragility and a material meditation on the human capacity to make use and make do: the will to adapt to uncertain conditions and the resourcefulness to persist with what is on hand.