This artist uses tons of a certain kind of found object, like keys from a keyboard, trophies, lottery tickets or old records to create sculptures that give a zoomed out look at American culture. A few discarded lottery tickets by themselves don't make much of a statement, but towers built out of these seemingly unsteady and unpredictable pieces of our culture can communicate a lot.
I specifically like the forms she chooses for these sculptures. They are incredibly unpredictable, for example, she uses the keyboard keys to make a pseudo textile form. She uses wine bottles to fill a doorway, creating the illusion of a stained glass window. Pots stuck to the ground using concrete become fun stepping stones in a park in New York. She uses the forms as one of her main tools to show the viewer something in the objects that they might not have originally seen, especially in just one of the objects by itself.
And this is not only functional aspects of the object. Often it is social or cultural aspects. For example, in one installation, she takes items of different museum uniforms or work clothes and deconstructs them and hangs them on a wall all right next to each other. This takes away social aspects of the clothing that the viewer might not even realize they are noticing on an everyday basis, putting the janitor's clothes right next to the director's clothing, and bringing attention to the way that clothing is part of class distinction in our culture.
Check out her website here.
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