My work is process-based, often with a particular image, material, or juxtaposition as its initial catalyst. Labor-intensive and experimental techniques allow the work to develop layers; rhythms and patinas emerge over time through repetition and tinkering. In this way, my work is a tool to get under the hood of images, sounds, and narratives—their mechanisms of production and systems of consumption—and meditate on the slow cooking of meaning and influence that they provoke. I think of my materials as the residue of visual systems: the popular images that swarm our minds, the narrative formulas that contain our stories, and the artifacts of digital information. My projects are invitations to notice meaning being made; to crack these systems open and make space in the mind. I work with tactics of abstraction and collage in which representation is disrupted and intended meaning questioned, leaving only the messy traces of form, compression, and reinterpretation.