STATEMENT
I make “hacker art” transforming dismantled computer hardware into sculptural collage that stimulates new ways of seeing and thinking about our relationship to the technology that pervades our lives. As a 3D recycled assemblage artist I’m obsessed with unearthing the internal shapes and materials found inside old technology. My work is a tribute to the human ingenuity that goes into creating these amazing products and a reminder of our dependence and insatiable craving for newer and better. I’m most influenced by my father, who worked as a Raytheon engineer. A child of the depression, my dad was unable to throw out any once valuable object. As a result, our family’s basement was like a museum of the early computer age filled with circuit boards, and cathode ray tubes. My studio is located at the Artisan’s Asylum “maker space” housed in a 40,000 sf former factory. It is a hotbed of innovation and collaborative energy, where a community of engineers, artists and craftspeople share access to the latest design software and fabrication tools. And that is the wonderful irony of my art life today—using cutting edge technology to create art from yesterday’s tech, art that prompts us to think about consuming technology in a more responsible and sustainable manner.