Artist's Statement
The patterns in my wallpaper series are of everyday objects we often use but once before discarding. I began scanning these ephemeral articles in the hope of calling attention to their quiet, but fundamental role, in our daily lives.
Band-Aids, Q-tips, toilet paper, tea bags, matches: disposable, utilitarian items we spend little time considering. We simply use these items to get by; they are merely a means to an end. The tiling of these objects re-contextualizes them, separating them from their function and adding new visual meaning. As a result, familiar items dissolve into various fields of color and texture: tea leaf particles re-configure themselves into shadowy tableaux of landscapes when their bags are turned and twisted; sugar powder flows like blood through veins of gum-stick creases; broken layers of grape wafer cookies are recast as the peeling walls of decaying buildings.
When I create an installation with a pattern, I place my swatch book of designs on a table in the center of the wallpapered room in the hope that every visitor will create, and walk away with, a fresh, personal installation in their own mind.