My current artworks examine how ideologies evolve. I am interested in the ways belief systems
are impacted, modified, and negated by external institutions such as philosophy, science, and
religion. The individual artworks are an assemblage of appropriated images and materials that
are deconstructed and combined with fabricated elements. These elements are constructed through
traditional metalsmithing processes—a practice as significant as the end product.
Within all of my work I attempt to strike a balance between our moral and social flaws, as well as
the persistence and integrity that constructively advances our culture. The images and objects are meant
to be amusing, sardonic, and peculiar. It is my intention to examine the causes and effects that the
progression of new knowledge has on our ideologies.