Incorporating sculpture, installations, photography, performative actions, and video, while drawing on economic and political situations, this body of work investigates personal and public conflicts and confusions related to individual identity verses collective identity in contemporary American culture. Through recontextualizing utilitarian objects and cultural source materials, including breakfast cereal, chewing gum, camouflage patterning, and cowboy spurs, I question our familiar associations with ubiquitous consumer products and mass media-generated images—exploring ideas and understandings related to the hand-made and the mass-produced, the permanent and the ephemeral, and notions of community and shared experience in contemporary culture.