My solo show is now open at the Santa Monica Art Museum, alongside four other fantastic exhibitions that make this season an incredible time to visit. Tickets are available online through the museum’s website—I hope you’ll come experience the work in motion.
I’ve always been drawn to the forgotten—those rusted, obsolete fragments of machinery left to gather dust in basements and junkyards. When I find them, it feels less like collecting and more like rescuing. Each gear, wire, and gauge carries a memory of motion, a ghost of purpose. I bring them back to the studio, listen to what they might still want to become, and start building.
There’s a kind of joy in reanimating these disused parts, in giving them a second life that’s no longer about utility but wonder. When the motors hum and the lights flicker, they remind me that invention isn’t only about progress—it’s about transformation. These machines have already lived one story; I get to help them tell another.
In their movement and stillness, I see a reflection of our own ability to adapt, to renew. Every piece I build is a small act of hope—a belief that even what’s been cast aside can find beauty again, and maybe even teach us to see the world with new curiosity.
