By exaggerating the theatrical notion of Minimalism, I have begun to view my work as a stage designed to mirror and question one’s estranged relationship with an increasingly fragmented world. Using the tropes of theater, I engineer variable objects that create implied gestures and a venue for reciprocal interaction. The work oscillates between a physical prop for the viewer and a psychological stage reflecting the distressed social body. In addition, the work’s architectonic nature and corporeal properties address the physical body through object placement and the play of scale in relation to life. Through material contradiction, transformation, and anthropomorphic qualities, the work simultaneously penetrates an interior space or an emotional state. Endearing, diffident, pathetic, lonely, deformed, playful and often humorous, these characters and spaces are both optimistic and horrific, alien and real. My use of familiar materials with a functional history allows me to construct a relational site that works to combat a hermetic notion of self- referential art. I want to view these everyday objects poetically, not for what they are, but what they can become and create.