Statement
I am interested in the interchange between nothing and something and how that interchange is manifested in everyday reality. While I focus on natural and artificial environments, I am interested in the threshold between perception and description and the ways in which each questions and informs the other. I pay attention to the things that are hidden not in the obscure but in the obvious. I explore the idea of how to drag the everyday into view by collecting, mapping, annotating and observing the everyday fractured reality and what goes unnoticed in the places humans briefly inhabit, places that are not our homes but instead serve a temporary social function.
My artistic practice is conceptually driven and grounded in research and making. To see is to think, and drawing is another way of thinking. I work on the outskirts of the traditional notion of drawing, I use drawing as a practice to explore concepts and test ideas that may not have a place in any one discipline; it allows me to employ a diverse set of tools and techniques from a variety of materials. Meaning is discovered and made through process, technology, social interaction and language. I am not interested in simply thinking about the world, I think via the world.
My recent work explores how drawing fits in with space. I use chance operations to understand the dynamics of the non-places that are produced by circulation, consumption and communication and use walking as a strategy to draw in space in attempts to redefine the role of the figure in drawing with the use of digital video. I am interested in: mapping, circulation and how one’s body feels in relation to its environment; drawing with words and the space in-between letters on the printed page; and using what is found in the architectural volume of space and making it different in kind. I search for structural similarities in situations, non-places, and the mundane moments of the urban everyday to provide an alternative understanding of our changing complex world.