Artist Statement

As a child, I would wander through toy aisles and imagine little worlds on each display. Bright pink cars sped across the shelves, planes flew from aisle to aisle picking up fabulous celebrities, dolls strolled down streets with plastic dogs, and mermaids swam through oceans with rainbow hued tails. I would take those worlds with me and use them as inspiration to create my own doll homes, miniatures, and characters.

Today, I still find myself wandering through other realities, and thinking about what I could do to bring them to life through toys and miniatures.  My work brings the worlds, the people who live there, and the fun that could be had in them to life. I create fun, and sometimes peculiar, characters and toy designs, not just as objects, but as invitations for others to take them home and build their own little universes in their minds too.