My series Stacking & Piling researches the traces and concerns which emanate from political turmoil, social injustice and natural catastrophies. These sculptures are built like spontaneous memorials, amalgams of ordinary objects, often symbolic, which have an immediate relationship to a particular loss or trauma. I question the transmutation of these objects, the memories they leave behind and the symbolic value that we transfer onto them. I sculpt and paint while reflecting upon the concepts of empathy, commemoration and the passage of time.