Trash, props, tools, souvenirs, and antiques all have different ownership and different ghosts.  My document work examines surfaces of objects to reveal their histories and narratives, including present time.  

A series of photographs documents the surfaces of cutting boards from a Zen Monastery, elevating an ordinary domestic tool to a collective sacred object.  

In the series Rental Props, the surfaces of rented bronzed baby shoes and antique irons reveal monuments to anonymous individuals, couched in the social arenas of nostalgia, advertising, and preserved value.  

In my most recent series, found embroideries are displayed from the back side, exposing the knots and cross stitching of the unconscious hand.  These works were inspired by Dubuffet’s collection of abstract embroideries from mentally ill patients; I was interested in the similarity of form with domestic embroideries on the side intended to be hidden.