SCULPTURE

My work explores memory through sculpture using found objects and traditional materials. As a child, my friends and I collected discarded items and transformed them into forts, miniature worlds, and improvised spaces of play. That experience of building from what was available continues to shape my practice, informing both my material choices and my approach to form.

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Assembled Pasts is a body of work composed of sculptural installations that reconstruct fragments of my childhood through the accumulation and layering of materials that carry personal and cultural significance. I am drawn to worn surfaces, traces of use, and textures that suggest a history beyond their original function. By recontextualizing these materials, I investigate how memory is not fixed but continuously reshaped through acts of assembly, association, and reinterpretation.

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My process is intuitive and tactile. I gather, sort, and experiment with materials, allowing their physical properties to guide each construction. One installation is a walk-through clubhouse built from pallets, reused wood, and fabric, recalling a structure I built as a child and inviting viewers into a shared space of nostalgia and imagination. Another installation draws from a memory of my father and his friends playing dominoes after performing music on South Beach, capturing rhythms of routine, community, and rest.

Together, these installations operate as a series within Assembled Pasts, where constructed environments function as vessels for lived experience. The work ultimately considers how memory is embedded in material and how acts of making can preserve, transform, and reanimate the past within the present.