Born in America
Raised in Australia
Living for language

In my work, I aim to challenge the cliche.

I see them as inspiration; cubes of ice to mindlessly crunch, doodles in the page margains, strands of spaghetti to throw
at a wall.

They’re the bulk order of home-brand beans in my corner cupboard that will see me through the apocalypse. Or another COVID-19 lockdown.

In my work, I aim to
strip every subject of
its stereotypes.

I try to test its purpose on our shelves, plastered across our city’s billboards, or stashed in our backpacks. I attempt to do this by treating the words I use in the same way; challenging their place in our dictionaries by playing with their sound, their shape, and of course their fundamental meaning. I aim to achieve all of this in order to ultimately reflect an approach that is arguably quite simple:

It is what it is,
plus a little more.