My recent sculptural work deals with entropy of physical materials and the multifaceted ways we relate to the physical world. Environmental mini-apocalypses can shift our value systems and create lifestyles of appropriation and immediacy. The past two years I have made a series of sculptural work from my research and travels to the Salton Sea in southern California. Some works comprise collections of fish gills, discarded furniture parts, and plastic oil jugs that fuse together in anthropomorphic forms to piece apart this epic of the environment and of our perceptions of failing, uncontrollable natural systems. One work of this series titled, Salton Sea Solar Still, also involved a video of the construction of a solar still on the shores of the Sea that was projected through the sculpture.

Along with material transformation in sculptural work, often I perform in public space to address dynamics of cultural and social value systems. In a performance Untitled: Chair Walk, I pushed eight chairs I had inherited from a neighborhood in San Diego, into Tijuana. The seventeen mile long trip along major city sidewalks took eleven hours and along the way I would stop to photograph the chairs in various positions or situations. Remnants of this action were displayed in two distinct manners representing the differences between the beginning and the end of a journey– what was left behind and which aspects of the story are told in each location.