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Ordinary Signs, Practical Magic

2025

a full gallery photo including large and small paintings, hanging and stacked sculptures and works hung in non-traditional spaces such as air ducts and brick walls in storage closets
An art gallery with wooden floors and white walls displaying contemporary artworks, including a large blue painting and a hanging net sculpture.
An art gallery features a colorful pixelated painting on a brick wall, an orange square artwork, and a partially visible blue painting.
a gallery showing part of a gridded colorful large painting on a brick wall,  orange square painting, objects on a pedastal, two white panels with small colorful pieces leaned against a wall, a handmade net with red orbs
A gallery view showing a wooden wall with an orange tiered shelf holding small green items, an orange rectangular artwork on a white wall, and a wooden cube displaying fanned golden tags on a white pedestal.
A textured blue glass jar filled with blue pigment is capped by a light wood sphere and a lapis lazuli sphere, resting on a textured red surface.
an assemblage on a white panel including tan bits of foam pinned to a wall in a grid pattern, a wood shelf holding an orange painting, supported by blue tape with green paint on it, in front of the painting is a bundle of sticks and a small green notebook with a blue silhouetted painting of the bundle of sticks overlaying a smudged to-do list
a red wooden orb with a bite out of the top sits on two stacked square supports the bottom is white and top is a clear green. all of this sits on the windowsill in the gallery
a sculpture on a white plinth next to a tall rectangular window in the gallery. on the plinth on the left is a collection of small red orbs, on the right is a tall, column like sculpture made of stacked metal and plastic bins of varying colors
detail of a metal filing cabinet with two drawers open that include various small red orbs, wooden blocks, marbles, and a nest
two 12 inch square pieces hang in a corner of the gallery the left most on a white wall showing a red edge and a grey and blue irregular grid made of assembled wood pieces, the right on a brick wall shows small neutral colored squares of fabric stitched together with red string
detail photo of the floor at a corner where white wall meets brick wall with wooden trip and dark wood floors. balancing on the wooden trim is a series of small, white, clay balls in ascending order according to size
overhead view of a square plinth with red orbs arranged in an l-shape grid and a green notebook with a dried rose stem painted blue with orange powder coating the top
close-up of a square white plinth with red orbs arranged in an l-shape grid and a green notebook with a dried rose stem painted blue with orange powder coating the top
Abstract painting in various shades of blue and indigo, featuring a grid pattern with organic and geometric shapes, some outlined in white chalk.
A vintage Smith-Corona typewriter with a continuous paper strip filled with typed questions and answers.
A vintage Smith-Corona typewriter with a continuous paper strip filled with typed questions and answers.

My work is a study in belief—in art, in invisible forces, in the power of noticing. It asks how meaning is made through arrangement, care, and interaction with ordinary materials we encounter. Using photography, assemblage, collage, drawing, and painting, I respond to “ordinary signs” and reconfigure visual fragments into compositions that feel both grounded and enchanted. Each piece becomes a gesture of attention—a response to the quiet magic embedded in the everyday.

This installation reflects my interest in process as ritual and creation as an act of practical magic. I’m drawn to materials that carry histories—whether found, gifted, or repurposed—and to systems of visual language that help me locate myself in the world. Through these gestures, I aim to cultivate a slower, more attentive way of seeing. The work invites viewers into a shared space of observation and wonder, where even the most ordinary object might be charged with symbolic potential. This practice is a way of paying attention, of believing in what can’t be fully explained, and of holding space for beauty, uncertainty, and care.