My work begins with a return—to materials, to memory, to a place of quiet emotional certainty. I create assemblage sculptures where music finds new life in silence, drawing from broken instruments, weathered brass, and forgotten fragments. These objects carry a history I trust: a former vibration, a past rhythm, a resonance that lingers even after the sound has stopped.
By working with materials once meant to be heard, I tap into an emotional continuity that feels both personal and universal. Each sculpture holds the ghost of its former sound: a drumbeat stilled, a string once trembling, now transformed into a visual rhythm that endures.
Through this process, I explore transformation not as rupture, but as passage. Decay and repair, silence and song, past and present exist together in a continuous flow. The discarded does not disappear; it evolves. These works offer a space to step outside the noise of the moment—art that can reliably carry us elsewhere, if only briefly—inviting viewers to listen with their eyes and sense the quiet pulse that remains. Within this continuum, beauty persists, memory endures, and harmony is never truly lost.
Title: Fulcrum 2025
Medium: Deconstructed musical instruments. Acoustic guitar, piano keys, part of a French horn, part of a violin, and scroll of a cello - SOLD
Medium: Trumpet, drum rims and cymbals, parts of a guitar, toy piano, and beveled glass from a vintage scale with acrylic painting inside - SOLD
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Title: Harmony in Form 2024
Medium: An assembly of deconstructed musical instruments and found objects: piano dampers, strings, keys, metal drum rim, cymbal, Veena, violin, and car tail light.
Title: Guitars, Sax, and Tail Lights 2024
Medium: Assemblage of deconstructed musical instruments and found objects: parts of an electric guitar, saxophone, piano dampers, drum kit, metal drum rim, and 1959 Chevy Impala tail lights.
Title: Cyclotron 2019
Medium: Deconstructed musical instruments, Wood and metal instruments, car headlights and LED lights
Title: Hotaru 2019
Medium: Large vintage bulb, 1959 Chevy tail lights, 1940s microphone, bike chain, and LED lights
Title: Insectum Machina
Medium: Vintage typewriter parts and car taillights - SOLD
Title: Quintet 2018
Medium: Parts of bass, guitar, cello, piano, and French horn
Title: Take Five 2018SOLD
Currently part of the WOMEN ARTISTS OF DMV - A multi-venue exhibition showcasing the work of female artists in the greater Washington, DC area. Hosted in 18 major art spaces around the region. This piece is at The Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
Title: Tidal Harmonic Constants 2019
Title: Harmonic Fragments 2019
Medium: Deconstructed musical instruments.Parts of Cello, guitar, drum sticks, piano, and front of a vintage Epiphone guitar amp
Title: Transdisciplinary Conjuncture 2018 - SOLD
Title: Resonance Shift 2014
Medium: Guitar, piano dampers and keys, pieces of metal mesh - SOLD
Title: Kadiddlehopper Stomp 2017
Medium: Typewriter parts, bicycle chain, piano strings, piccolo parts, aluminum screen, and shoe tree
Medium: Tea strainer, metal thumb tacks, guitar strings, metal drawer pulls, steel-toe for cowboy boots, spoon, and metal mesh. SOLD
Title: Yardbird 2016 - SOLD
