Statement

Artist’s Statement Working with a variety of media my work seeks to look beneath the everyday. I present windows and situations in which we may draw our focus below the surface of reality and accepted belief through the fragmented and, at times, semi-transparent surfaces of the work. Reinterpretation of the commonplace and the mundane and re-presentation of the ordinary are the chief concerns of my work. Banal paranoia, imagining the mundane and the inability to distinguish the imagined from the actual are themes that run through my work. Drawing heavily from the writings of Franz Kafka, I strive to present a suspicious and confused outlook brought about by mistrust in everything due to our inability to truly know anything, due to loss, the fallibility of memory and the constant state of flux that we find ourselves in. The open nature of the pieces, the lack of finality and closure, as well as the kinetic and interactive qualities of the work, give the audience the opportunity not only to draw conclusions from the topics presented, but also to alter, engage and become part of the work itself. The immersion of the spectator, on both a physical and cerebral level, further informs the themes from which the work has stemmed, as the spectator becomes linked with the artwork, blurring the lines of spectator and artwork in a way in which the work blurs the line between fact and fiction. This blurring of lines serves to extend the sense of isolation inspired by Kafka, and put the spectator in a position of being. At times, consumed by a situation not of their own making.