I am drawn to deceptively simple materials, physical and sonic: the sound of two stones scraped slowly across one another; the reverberant impact of these stones struck hard together in a resonant concrete building; the change that results if a person walks slowly around that building while striking the stones together; the memory of pulling these stones out of a river on a trip twelve years in the past. The act of finding these materials, their resonances, and their arrangement in time and space, makes them incredibly personal, and they become talismans marking specific times and places in my life.

My work attempts to use ideas from these materials in activating resonances, physical and imaginary, of
their surroundings. I am reminded of the effect achieved by the artist Dan Flavin, in which a small number of green fluorescent light tubes, for example, illuminate a darkened, enclosed concrete environment. Shadows and reflections highlight the surrounding walls, or generate illusions of larger or smaller spaces, and participants experience shadows and afterimages in complementary rose colors when closing their eyes or turning away from the lights.