I am a collector of overlooked patterns, patterns you see on a daily basis. Every time I enter a restroom, my eyes immediately look to the toilet paper roll. Have I seen this subtle embossed design before? If not, I will take a few squares and place them in my pocket. These perforated swatches travel with me and end up joining their friends in a plastic Ziploc bag. In addition to toilet paper, I collect paper towels that I find in numerous public and private kitchens and bathrooms. I obsess about these found ubiquitous domestic patterns contained in the products we see, use, and throwaway every day.

The prevalence of these patterns in our daily life renders them invisible, their utility questionable. We don’t even take them for granted; we barely notice them. In this body of work, I am taking these motifs and reintroducing them by transferring them from one material to another. The conversion from something ephemeral into something permanent intrigues me. Ultimately, I am giving them visibility and celebrating their presence in the context of other domestic objects meant for daily use.