I view my work as a constructed hauntology, which is, “ a range of ideas referring to the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost”. I make and observe what haunts us. I address where we as a society could use an exorcism. I experiment in the studio by sculpting with time-based media and traditional fine arts techniques to make collage “cut-ups” and weird figurative gouache paintings to explore “time out of joint”. My approach in talking about my work is poetic. I let my thinking flow associatively and I am taken on a sojourn into eerie temporality where the real and the unreal live together in between tricks of the light, orbs, eye floaters, fireflies, and broken streetlights. The past haunts the present from a place of repetitive and necessary urgency. Snarled knots that can’t be brushed out of wet hair, a rat’s nest, a sailor’s knot, nerves before a performance, and cosmic kaleidoscopes are all par for the course. My intention is to catch participants at the crossroads of the real and the unreal all at once.