My work is concerned with particularities of the human/object interface, seeking to reveal the circumstances that form our understaning of the material world. The framing of an object in different context: historical, personal, economic, or aesthetic, changes what that object communicates. By changing the context for an object, we challenge its dominant meaning, making room for slippage, and expanding that objects expressive capacity. I aspire to make art that operates like slang, taking what already exists and modifying it to fit a particular outlook. I see this method of customization as an essential way of coping with the hegemony of mass production. Instead of passive consumption, what my work advocates is an active materialism, where the individual navigates her self-expression through a series of alterations to, and rearrangements of, cultural significations.