chair, 2014, 114 x 42 x 37 inches, found stair lift

Sourced from a decades-long residence in Denver, this mechanical artifact has been salvaged and reoriented. The work removes it from its utilitarian context, revealing a singular sculptural presence. The piece honors the machine’s thirty years of quiet, rhythmic service—an extended history that transformed it from a functional accessibility device into an essential, almost totemic presence. In its new orientation, the lift stands as a monument to endurance and reliability, as well as to the domestic rituals through which ordinary objects are elevated into the realm of the sacred. This transformation can be read in contrast to the way a religious object such as the cross functions as a medium of faith and belief, suggesting instead how material things, through shifting contexts and modes of attention, may also come to carry and mediate systems of meaning, material value, and conviction.