The artwork that I make starts from a central point inside and expands in various directions ranging from drawing to collage, printmaking and mixed media.  My process, mimicking nature, is cyclical, reusing, layering, and creating as little waste as possible.  Wanting to reduce my practice's carbon footprint, I sift through the excesses of our society, salvaging and manipulating materials to draw attention to the overwhelming nature of our consumer culture.  Growing up in Philadelphia I have always felt the affects of our postindustrial society.  In these abandoned spaces I have found the unnatural and the natural begin to blend as all things become reclaimed by nature. The incongruent sight of our artificial reality imposed over the natural environment is to me very striking.  Often these spaces are met with the bull dozer in a garish display of construction waste, the visual chaos of this process I find beautiful.  The nostalgia of this idealized era is now replaced by our new material culture, with its complexity and its production of waste. Each work of art made is a unique installment incorporating themes of the ephemerality of nature, consumerism, deconstruction, and nostalgia.