"Through clients and friends, I recently received a collection of personal letters, bank notes and bills from the 1800s, stock records from the 1920s, current 3d printer remnants and discarded paintings, photos and fruit labels.... spanning 200 years of collected detritus, and data, a small section of America's long history. Looking closer, I was reminded that the early correspondence was during a time when slavery was in full force, and women were relegated to the home. Each grouping had a corresponding period in our history and in mine. I was intrigued with the notion of presenting it all together in each artwork, the layering, the flow of time, the reoccurrence of historical moments. I love working with the specificity of the time they represent, from the delicate calligraphy of the old letters, to the annoying stickiness of our current fruit labels."