artist statement

The accordion book is a scroll, folded and compressed. Thousands of years ago, this book structure solved the problem of data storage and retrieval – of spools of images and texts taking up too much space. The roots of my own work connect with this history, of feeling overwhelmed by an infinite scroll and seeking a means to transform my digital world into something concrete and containable in the book form.

I create handmade accordion books that expand into wall-mounted paper and bent steel sculptures. Each zig-zagging accordion on the wall comes from an archive of images and color palettes on my iPhone. Using digital tools as a resource, I mine an archive of photographs to craft compositions that reference scrolling images, glitches, and abstract gradients of color. Color, light, and shadow become sculptural elements in my work that reference waves, mountains, maps, and pixel grids.

Like a digital file opening and closing on your desktop, my books deal with expansion and compression, presence and absence, inflation and collapse. The printed images in the book form are a physical expression of my infinitely expanding digital world now in an analog form. I use the grid to contain and create order from these fragments. A fluorescent pink emanates from beneath each book and mimics the glow of our handheld screens, enticing and seemingly ever-present.