I revel in the practice of recreating everyday objects and altering them to suit my conceptual designs. I have two approaches when creating art, one is calculated and involves active planning and research. The other approach is an intuitive process of constructing abstractions. My current body of work involves replicating architectural elements and using them as a metaphor that speaks directly to building and rebuilding my life. The finished forms reference the aesthetic quality of ruins and the reparative action of re-constructing and reinforcing. The interior spaces show the contrast between public and private, hard and soft, and fragility and strength. I use the motif of small cinder blocks as components that travel through time to evoke feelings of abandoned architecture and lost memory.