About ten years ago I began designing community art projects for a neighborhood park.  As is often the case for this type of project, I had a very limited budget.  In looking around for resources I realized that many wonderful potential art materials are discarded everyday. This was the beginning of my involvement in both community art and trash art.  I enjoy bringing art out of cloistered settings and I enjoy employing mundane, unexpected materials to make art.

The term "found object art" has so many meanings.  For my sculptures I prefer the term "trash art" because much of my work is focused on discarded objects.  I use materials as diverse as lunch boxes, potato chip bags, mop handles and metal barbecues.  A really fun thing about trash art is that it is very accessible.  It is familiar, so people are drawn to it and feel an immediate connection.  The beauty of trash art is that it asks us to regard these familiar objects in a new way.  For me working in trash art is fundamentally an expression of the possibility of transformation.