My work allows the viewer to reconsider the mundane and imagine the infinite possibilities of association. The work becomes a process to follow instead of a series of intuitive decisions that need to be made. By creating a rule, I allow the artist to disappear. Sometimes a pigeon is what’s called for, or children’s toys. Sometimes the more traditional approach is best, as it was in the piece, “The Color of Everyone’s Shirt that Entered the Roasterie on April 1, 2009 from 11:00am-12:00pm”, where acrylic paint was used to reproduce the information collected as a list of colors painted on a white-gesso panel. I organize and categorize information, meticulously noting everyday situations, interactions among other people, and my relationship to the world around me.

My process begins with an idea, followed by an established set of restraints. Whether it be with observing something over a set period of time or collecting something indefinitely. Reducing art to a self-evident form of making allows natural patterns to be tracked and realized. In the piece “Path-Tracking 11/01/07 – 11/01/08”, I attempted to track my path by saving and categorizing all of my receipts for a year. I consider my art a form of mapmaking, a depiction of space illustrating relationships between different components.