My current body of work deals with how the meaning of language, and objects associated with conversation, belong in a specific context. I am interested in what happens when the language is removed from its original context and placed into a new environment. The text used in my work is found language that I overhear and objects I am collecting from public places. Repetition and visual alteration are used as metaphors for how spoken and remembered language can change over time. Recently my work has consisted of printed lists, book messages, installation, casting, and sound.

Documentation of history and stories can be seen in language from everyday life. The history of the errands ran that day, a book thought to be fitting for a specific person, a conversation over a cup of coffee, or a declaration of love to another. My hope for this work is to create a collection of these kinds of private “artifacts” from public places. Each connected to language and each item having a history.

Each collected item is remade and enhanced. By remaking these items I want to bring importance to forgotten or unnoticed language. This process also removes language from the original source, allowing for new narratives. As one retells stories and describes environments, information changes. With this work, the unknown original story becomes reinvented. Markings that were once unnoticed because of the object they are inscribed upon, the St. Louis Arch for instance, now becomes the focus of attention, and the forgotten conversation overheard over coffee is remembered. This language can lead people to question private information that is made accessible in public spaces.