Perception varies between individuals, giving us the opportunity to investigate, interpret, select and organize sensory information in unique and deeply personal ways. While touching on the topics of identity and perception, my work primarily deals with the emotional and cognitive response an individual can have to an object. I create objects in order to alter and manipulate one’s perception and connect with the idea of how we as people perceive one another as individuals.

I chose materials with characteristics that best allow me to engage with the viewer and alter their perceptions or preconceptions about a given material or environment. Most recently, I have explored the ways reflection and repetition allow the work to blend into, or jump out of, the environment in which they are placed, altering the viewer’s perception of the work as their gaze shifts with their physical relationship to the work.

Parallel Universe was created to explore the manipulation of interactions between the audience and their surrounding environment. I used simple geometric forms so the focus was on the reflective surfaces and what they reveal, or hide, rather than complexity of the object. The audience is forced to move around the objects, trying to interact with the work rather than treat the objects as simple mirrors. The faces of the cubes were made for contrast the dominant reflectivity of the installation, revealing the effect of leaving a preternatural green two-dimensional plane suspended in space, essentially making the physicality of the object completely disappear.