artist statement

The algia in the word “nostalgia” is derived from the Greek work for “pain” or “ache.” The nost in the word means “homecoming.” I inject value into the interactive pieces that I create through repurposed imagery, iconography, material, and concept. With this in mind, my work combines familiar aesthetic and tactile elements of growing up, like the bright and shiny plastic of an action figure, or the shiny metal and silky pearls from an heirloom piece of jewelry. I compose these elements into bizarre objects and unexpected wearables. By interacting with their audience, my crafted commercially-inspired oddities question and satirize the deeply human experience of valuing a nostalgic object regardless of material worth. In doing so, I am seeking to trigger and inspect the comforting pain of coming home.