Artist's Statement

I create sculptural works from discarded electronic peripherals, most often used computer keyboards, transforming discarded tools of communication into objects of reflection.

Keyboards are intimate instruments. They record our labor, our conversations, our arguments, our code, our stories. We use them to build our careers and our unique identities. At the same time, keyboards are mass-produced tools engineered for standardization; every unit is nearly the same. When they are discarded, they carry the residue of our interaction while embodying the rapid obsolescence that defines consumer technology. By reclaiming and recontextualizing these materials, I explore the tension between permanence and disposability, expression and erasure.

My process involves disassembly, sorting, and recomposition. Keys, once standardized and functional, become modular units of texture, color, and pattern that resist their original logic. Wires and cables become threads that evoke both digital networks and textile tradition, suggesting that identity, like fabric, is constructed through interlaced systems. By reworking discarded technology, I question how identity persists within and beyond the mass-produced systems that mediate it.

Working with electronic waste is both a material and conceptual decision. It situates the work within conversations about consumption, sustainability, and digital culture. These pieces are artifacts of a technological era: monuments to communication infrastructure that is simultaneously ubiquitous and invisible.

My practice positions technological debris not as waste, but as evidence of authorship. Uniform components, reassembled, suggest that individuality is not opposed to systems—it is produced within them.