Statement

Artist Statement



My studio practice explores dualities and conflicts inherent in the human experience and the exploration of textures and feelings between things. The works I’m creating explore themes of memory, fear, human vulnerability, and power. Employing the use and expanded approach to processes I use experimental collage, printmaking, and drawing layers to create works that seek to capture ideas that reflect the brevity of life, dismay of institutionalized power structures and mappings of repetitions and personal observations. For the last two years I’ve researched and examined how my world view and life experiences have shaped who I am as an artist and human being.

I often use defamiliarized quotations from culture in my work. The hierarchy and placement of the marks, drawings, prints, photos create layers that explore dichotomies such as wealth/poverty, raw/soft and integration versus segregation as well as inner versus outer experience. Below all the collage and chaos of subculture artifacts I am making stories and meta-narratives which hopefully reveal/question the vulnerability of humanity. My aim is to literally build “character” or a type of richness as I combine vocabularies from my interest in mark making, daydreaming and objecthood and identity.