My first job out of college was teaching art through a correspondence school. Drawings and photographs and tests and quizzes and cover sheets were paper-clipped and put into a tray for me to grade. I was interacting a lot with paperclips. So when I had the opportunity to do an installation piece at the Missio Dei gallery, paperclips seemed like an interesting medium for me to use. The space wasn't originally used as a gallery. There were lots of little odd quirks that stood out to me. I used paperclips to draw the viewer's attention to all of the things most people wouldn't notice, or maybe that the gallery hadn't intended for them to notice. I let the space dictate how I used the paperclips
