For me, it is not the natural beauty that inspires, but the raw materials of industry, commerce, and man's impact that I see from behind the wheel. I am also fascinated by the transformative potential of industrial materials and places. I am the person who wonders what is being made inside non-descript factories, or what the strange white substance is loaded on trucks streaming toward Utah's main highway. My work stems from the sights I see while driving - pallets of lumber, neatly strapped and stacked on a flatbed trailer, gabions controlling erosion, rusting shipping containers lined up on rail cars. The visual repetition of these raw materials and their beautiful, efficient simplicity inspire my forms and material choices. I use these raw materials, and treat them with layers of processes that alter their context and meaning, while maintaining their inherent familiarity. By burning, corroding, waxing, and strapping, I am attempting to demonstrate the conflict and inevitable resolution between the human tendency for self-destruction and our desire for self-preservation.