The contrast between delight
and torment, joy and pain compels me to explore the
dichotomies that occur in everyday life. I create
conceptual work about chaotic psychological states with a
veil of beauty and order. Through my deliberate and
controlled approach, I seek to draw the viewer in to my
exploration of themes of trauma, connection, despair,
transformation and isolation. I begin with a visceral
response to individual or collective stories about the
imbalances that occur in life and the desires to contain
uncertainty within some form of logic to give seemingly
random events reason. As I learn about the intricacies of
an experience, I translate it into a visual disguised in a
systematic appropriation of artifacts of everyday life. I
create my work to have a dialog at various levels, from the
beauty of an aesthetic surface, to the deeper meaning
behind my discoveries. Using culturally ubiquitous
materials, such as bandages, erasers and satellite dishes
in suburbia, I draw the viewer in to reflect on a shared
human experience.