My work often intersects and collapses disparate histories and memories with present-day narratives. My engagement in histories dovetails with my interest in monuments – in what they represent, and what they can become. I create both temporary and permanent sculptures, installations and “memorials.” I try to counter a single perspective with one that’s complex and sometimes messy – perhaps reflecting our histories in a more honest way. I reinterpret the status quo and presumptions of who should be honored (i.e. The Battle is Joined) and seek to reimagine the givens, that which is assumed to be universally accepted. I attempt to rearticulate these objects/sites as a way to declare presence, allowing the public to claim, reclaim or define a site in a new way and expand/imagine what’s possible. There are recurring themes in my work — absence, invisibility and displacement — which are often embedded in the viewing experience itself. I intervene in “blind spots” — unseen and unconsidered spaces — drawing attention to the periphery. Tethering the formidable and fragile, melancholy and hope, my work echoes the tension that exists in our shifting personal and civic lives.