artist statement
Art is a map that navigates me through life and is a conduit for exploration. It is a vehicle for heightened awareness and deeper consciousness through mundane, commonplace things, as well as painful, incomprehensible, or awe-inspiring ones. My work can appear to be a factual depiction, an altered reality, a converted moment in time, or an environment holding a display of examinations. It can be an attempt to gain knowledge or understanding of something. Through the construction of art, life breakthroughs occur.
In some cases, my art is an amplification of something I deem noteworthy. When I recognize it as, or transform it into art, it becomes a token of appreciation. It is both homage and offering. When the item happens to be discarded or dead, it is given a second life. When I encounter a flicker of beauty that lasts for only a second, or a magnificent composition only to be seen from a specific viewpoint, it can transcend time and space through the translation of artistic practice. I think this has something to do with love.
My work is autobiographical. Broadly, I am concerned with the scope of living inside my mind and body (anatomy and physiology, transformation, disease, and consciousness, emotion and cognition). My personal experiences, the life cycle, and nature are my main subjects. Collection and self examination are two of the most important acts in my process, and are often visually exemplified through layers, translucency, juxtaposition, and symbols of a personal mythology. Other themes I address are memory, vulnerability, compulsion, urban and organic decay, ordinary objects, and details of everyday life.
Drawing, photography, a combination of these I call Translucent Layer Montages and Depth Drawings, painting, installation, film and video can take shape in a multi-sensory experience including sound, found objects, and mixed media. I use these to compute, transform, and transmit the discoveries I make in everyday life. I meditate upon a specific aspect of life in order to decipher, spend time with, and acknowledge it. The result, an entirely new creation or a composite of already existing details, is my offering back into the world and a document of participation within it. This continuous reciprocal interaction is a boundless, intimate research project. In order to process life I must filter, examine, fabricate, and expel; these actions constitute my practice. Simply, art is the medium through which I learn about the world and attempt to understand life. My art is cartography illustrating my journeys.
In some cases, my art is an amplification of something I deem noteworthy. When I recognize it as, or transform it into art, it becomes a token of appreciation. It is both homage and offering. When the item happens to be discarded or dead, it is given a second life. When I encounter a flicker of beauty that lasts for only a second, or a magnificent composition only to be seen from a specific viewpoint, it can transcend time and space through the translation of artistic practice. I think this has something to do with love.
My work is autobiographical. Broadly, I am concerned with the scope of living inside my mind and body (anatomy and physiology, transformation, disease, and consciousness, emotion and cognition). My personal experiences, the life cycle, and nature are my main subjects. Collection and self examination are two of the most important acts in my process, and are often visually exemplified through layers, translucency, juxtaposition, and symbols of a personal mythology. Other themes I address are memory, vulnerability, compulsion, urban and organic decay, ordinary objects, and details of everyday life.
Drawing, photography, a combination of these I call Translucent Layer Montages and Depth Drawings, painting, installation, film and video can take shape in a multi-sensory experience including sound, found objects, and mixed media. I use these to compute, transform, and transmit the discoveries I make in everyday life. I meditate upon a specific aspect of life in order to decipher, spend time with, and acknowledge it. The result, an entirely new creation or a composite of already existing details, is my offering back into the world and a document of participation within it. This continuous reciprocal interaction is a boundless, intimate research project. In order to process life I must filter, examine, fabricate, and expel; these actions constitute my practice. Simply, art is the medium through which I learn about the world and attempt to understand life. My art is cartography illustrating my journeys.