I first worked as a scientist in the lab executing methods that require regimented and procedural thinking. But where I've always been naturally inclined is in broader systems: understanding things top to bottom, their relatedness, their dependency.

As Product Owner for a web application built within the biotech industry, that systems thinking takes on its most practical form. Thinking in tables and databases and queries, in interface and visuals and experience; it is all surprisingly similar to the excavations I walk in my art.

The granularity renders at a higher resolution. My nature compels me to go down, down, down. Disassemble and reassemble and question and Know. Play with the pieces until I discover their names, their utility, their language.

My art practice lets me break out of my own boxes whereas my professional work asks me to build them. Yet I only ever find myself in a bigger box with rules and boundaries less discernable than before.