Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the internet! Just a heads up, this site is like a toddler with a crayon—always a work in progress because I’m a delightful mess of contradictions. I’m on a never-ending quest to harmonize my inner chaos, juggling conflicting thoughts, desires, beliefs, and behaviors like a circus clown on a unicycle. So, welcome to my evolving contradiction!
The content of my work is the use of collage strategies to integrate multiple materials. I do this to witness where the media’s meet to bring a single form into existence, and I see this as a metaphor of my general practice. This pictorial experience is dynamic because of the various mediums and generates a dialectic, which speaks at once about the recognizable and the hidden. The covert aspect of my work engages the viewer’s perception in a sensual, intimate way, identifying the body as the ground of the self and of artistic gesture.
What I have come to understand is that my process is most like a self-exorcism. To heal myself I must acknowledge my psyche, where I can communicate with what I’ve suppressed. My deliverance is reliant on creation as a ritual healing. This creative act comes from recognizing my thoughts while being aware of the fact that I don’t know their source. This condition of knowing two extremes has created a state of neurosis and revealed my existential crisis, because I must question the very foundations of my life. The Body and Soul.
Mix Media on 11x14 Silver Gelatin Paper
