My work is an investigation into how socioeconomic circumstances impact our natural environment. Economic decline has provided a potential spark to transform our relationship with industry in a sustainable manner. I am interested in creating work that documents this transformation. Ideas for my artwork are developed from research I have collected from interviewing generations of industrial workers, tours of factories, and visits to industrial wastelands. My observations of the changing relationship between people, industry, and environment are then refocused and juxtaposed in order to motivate social change. For example, my recent work, Have You Tried Walking?, captures the transformation of a human figure into a gasoline funnel and signifies our dizzying physical and psychological relationship with oil.