Abandoned packing materials are like spatial fat. Once separated from the thing of

value they protected, they are just extra stuff that takes up room. I am obsessed with

them formally and conceptually; they have been at the center of my practice for 25

years. I am interested in their history as caretakers, their blurring of presence and

absence, and their ability to function as a metaphor for safety and security. I approach

these ideas in minimalist sculptures and installations that comment on the stability of

the built environment as package and the instability of our bodies contained within it.