My practice begins with close attention to ordinary materials and phenomena—glass, dust, light, air, and subtle optical distortions. Through experience charged installations, I examine how familiar substances can become sites where scientific and philosophical questions take material form.

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In About Dust, particles suspended in glass connect microscopic matter with cosmic scales. My work on black holes and optical apparatuses, developed at Skowhegan, considers observation not as neutral access to reality, but as a historically contingent practice shaped by instruments, technologies, and the observer’s body. My practice draws from scientific inquiry across different historical moments—from early forms of observation, handcraft, and speculation to contemporary scientific findings and systems of imaging and measurement. I look for points of contact and tension between these frameworks, allowing them to inform both the development of individual works and my broader way of thinking.

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By constructing situations that must be encountered bodily, I explore how knowledge moves between sensory experience and abstract explanation. Rather than illustrating scientific concepts, my work questions the boundary between scientific thought and embodied perception, asking how materials, instruments, and observers participate together in determining what can be known.