Exploration

Of the nature of the perceived world.

Practice

Of metacognitive multi-modality.

Inquiry

Into holding multiple truths.

As a process-based painter, printmaker, and installation artist, I work within three distinct modes: representational using photographs as source material, abstract from an intuitive/iterative process, and liminally between the two that seeks to bring abstraction to representational spaces. Using the processes of collection, assembly, deconstruction, and reassembly, I work in the language of painting in the expanded field, through a lens of collage. I move about freely within the modalities, embracing the multitudinous nature of self through expression.

I am curious about the nature of human perceptions of truth and reality, and how the passage of time transforms our understanding. As we collect our experiences and memories, they become our truths, yet these truths are singular to the individual. The aging process breaks down the reliability of memory as an accurate representation of experience, yet we continue to engage with our memories. In doing so, we choose to occupy mind spaces only available to ourselves. Across my modalities, I visually curate representations of my disparate lived experiences to create a new semblance of wholeness for myself, in a metacognitive art practice that seeks universal resonance. 

My work explores a range of subjects, including ontological ruminations into the nature of the universe, liminal or imaginary cityscapes and landscapes, and observations and experiences of the constructed/built world. I am interested in the semiotic quality of light occurring within the built landscape as a signal of longing and safety. I depict this in the work as lit windows in buildings and homes, traffic lights, and street lamps in the context of night or twilight. Compositionally, I rely on negative space to visually hold multiple truths at the same time. As I work in the medium of installation, negative spaces take the form of spatial distance between objects. In these spaces, light becomes a material unto itself, interacting with the space through illumination and the casting of shadow.