i collect various pieces of material i
receive through the mail. from this began
the collage work in 2001. what started out
as a standard manila envelope filled with
various cards and advertisements I found
amusing (for example,a thanksgiving card from
my automobile insurance company), has grown to more than 14 crates full of crap organized by subject matter: transportation, the environment, travel, shopping, memberships, housing, health, friends and family, politics, solicitations, work, money, and computing.

organized thematically, some pieces have
to do with the human relationship with the environment or automobiles or the continuous American-Iraqi war (Bush/Clinton/Bush eras)
or social gatherings.

recently, the work is moving toward creating
a space on the two-dimensional board. a space that is akin to what Michael Auge, a french sociologist/anthropologist, calls non-place.
they are spaces where we are all connected, but have no chance for any organic social life – no rituals, no growth, no cultural meaning. Space becomes an individual experience oddly connected to everyone simultaneously. present but not. for him, they are supermarkets, airports, bank machines. in the work created from 2006 onward, my boards are trying to obtain this feeling of non-place. walls and ceilings and floors are created from the various pieces of ephemera i collect – we are all familiar with the objects, but it is not comforting like macaroni and cheese, it is rather lonely.