These works are a reflection on time lost: time lost to worry and to waiting, time lost to unfulfilling labor and to unrequited love, time lost to losing oneself for the sake of another, and time lost simply because it has passed us by. This work draws attention to the preciousness of time and to how quickly it is lost to labor, to our mental health, and to the world around us.

Our society does not often value time beyond the measure of productivity, relegating it to a commodity that can be traded and sold. But time is a finite and indefinite resource, one that can slip through our fingers like sand. The tedium imparted by society detracts from the act of living.  As a result, our lives often exist between the extremes of beauty and monotony.

In my work, I reclaim tedium as a deliberate act of beauty. Through the implementation of carving, repetition, and duration, these works call attention to the passage and presence of time. Materials such as porcelain, soap, water, and light speak to ideas of ephemerality and human fragility. These ideas are reinforced by the prolific use of flowers. Throughout art history, flowers have been symbols for these conditions, most notably in memento mori and vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. The monochromatic palette in tandem with the use of repetition anchors the feelings of monotony in contrast with the fecundity and beauty of the flowers.

We look to the future for more time; but it is a prediction, not a promise. In looking towards the future there is hopefulness and there is melancholy; together, they create the emotion known as longing. We waste so much of our time in that space between what is and what was, or what is and what may never be. In the in-between of worry and wanting we discover what is missing and what is lost.