Lord, What Have You Done?

LWHYD is an ongoing series rooted in transformation, rupture, and rebirth.

For me, lava is not simply molten rock. It represents a moment when matter loses its certainty and becomes something else. Working with plaster, cement, resin, liquid metal, and other materials, I create hybrid forms that move between the geological and the artificial, the ancient and the industrial.

The work draws from sedimentation, erosion, tectonic rupture, and the accumulation of material over time. I think of some of these forms as Plastiglomerates and Astroglomerates—imagined geological remnants in which natural matter, synthetic material, and traces of human activity have fused into a new kind of landscape.

Originally trained in photography and moving image, I gradually shifted toward a material-based practice in order to engage more directly with the physical memory of transformation. From large-scale wall reliefs and sculptural bodies to suspended and architectural forms, the series explores the unstable boundaries between permanence and decay, nature and fabrication, destruction and regeneration.

My experience as an LMCC World Trade Center artist-in-residence in 2000 continues to resonate through the work. Across both my early and current practice, I am interested in invisible forces—seismic, technological, emotional, and human-made—and in giving those forces a physical, sculptural presence.