THE ART IS TESTIMONY.

I work with what other people have already decided is disposable—plastic pulled from shorelines, debris pulled from streets, fragments of a culture pulled from the edge of being forgotten.

My materials aren't chosen because they're free or convenient. They're chosen because they're evidence.

Each piece is built from Gestalt psychology's oldest promise: the whole is other than the sum of its parts. A single bottle cap is easy to dismiss—trash, waste, nothing. Place a thousand of them together, and they become impossible to look away from.

That's the work.

Not transformation for its own sake. Not "trash into treasure." Assembly as testimony—making visible, at scale, what we've trained ourselves not to see one piece at a time.

I don't want you to admire what I built. I want you to reckon with what you're looking at: this is real, this is ours, and most of it started as something ordinary that somebody didn't need to buy in the first place.

If there's beauty in the work, it's a hook—a reason to keep looking long enough to ask the harder question underneath it:

Why did we make so much of this to begin with?

I am a Restorer of what's been dismissed and a Witness to what's been damaged.

Every piece I make, every story I tell, is built on one conviction:

Nothing and no one is disposable.

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