I reconstruct the identities of my materials. I take a discarded item, deconstruct it into its parts and reassemble them in new ways. An old forklift palette becomes a coffee table, a spray generator cart turns into a chair. Our state of industry yields loads of waste that we usually take as just that, waste. The most common example in my work is the forklift palette. It is made of scrap wood in an industrial park for the sake of transporting a commercial product. After the transport, the palette has fulfilled its purpose and is discarded as trash. While I recognize the functional value of this process, I believe we can take these materials a few steps further. This is not just scrap wood, we must take into account its history and context. These scraps came from trees that were cut down to serve humans. Much like we use only the good parts of cows and discard the rest, our trees are suffering the same fate. In recognizing this supposed waste as valuable and reconstructing it into new and useful objects, or just plain beautiful ones, we are honoring the history of the material and the power of its source, the earth. This concept is subsequently reflected in the resulting piece.

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