I use seemingly benign, somewhat enticing, imagery to draw my audience into a layered and unsettling world
of complexities. Among the kitsch and banal I cram the gross, grotesque, obnoxious, and weird.
I am an opportunistic miner of "the cultural landfills" My imagery is
a collision of sources, styles, and subjects that operate in an open ended and non linear construction of reality. Like
the internet, and a good soap opera, there are numerous inlets and sub-narrative paths that intersect with a network of others.
Crawling over, climbing out, hiding within, and digesting its surrounding; my work
plays with image glut choc-full of cliche visual puns and deadpan humor. I hope that this humor operates as a coping mechanism and
ice-breaker.
I work with readymade systems and personal narrative as a departure point.
These structures provide me some parameters to start finding, hiding, and projecting imagery. I embrace spontaneity and let
the work take on its own life remixing the boundaries of the pre-existing source. While I hide personal narratives within
the work I am less interested in autobiography, and more so in the viewer recognizing their self within the complexity.
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