Artist Statement

My sculptures, installations and works on paper address how industrial materials and structures are built and how they corrode. I am interested in the point of transition between becoming and crumbling. Incorporating archeology, architectural fantasy and theatrical set design, my work explores the overlooked as silent narrators of our contemporary history.

I am especially drawn to packing materials: transient forms with architectonic qualities, designed solely to protect what we deem valuable. They mark time through their wear, intention and impermanence, anchoring traces of human experience within the built environment. In my sculptural work I carefully craft and place fragile elements in unstable arrangements that appear to be holding themselves together just long enough to be seen. The pedestals and supports are precariously built and integrated into the work itself, further evoking a sense of imminent collapse held in suspension. This is a direct reflection on the urban spaces in which we live: sites of construction and decay, ambition and neglect, endurance and erosion.

In my works on paper, I focus on mundane scenes: a piece of styrofoam deteriorating on the sidewalk, scaffolding covers, a scrap of bubble wrap. I treat the seemingly insignificant as protagonists, witnesses to the world around them.

Working with these everyday forms and materials, they become vessels of memory and presence. Coming from Italy, a culture that reveres the preservation of statues, ceramics, and ancient stones, I have developed a sensitivity to how materials carry history. I want to hold on to these overlooked fragments that reveal our histories, shifting them from the temporary and disposable to something preserved, seen, and remembered.

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