statement

My work is an ongoing exploration of my lived experiences and what I find most difficult to adequately describe in words. It often imparts a sense of isolation, which is something I have felt since I was a child, to varying degrees. I sometimes wonder what I am doing here and who I really am, and struggle to reconcile what it is that separates my innermost world with the external world around me.

The work is nearly always based on my own body, though only sometimes is it overtly figurative. I see my body as a type of a lens through which I experience both the external world of society, but also my own private interior realm as well. I cannot separate myself from this vessel and it is this vessel that also allows me to put things out into the world. So everything, ultimately, begins and ends with the flesh. We cannot exist, or create, or interact, or even think without it. This drives my interest in skin, as epithelium, as indexical recording device, as barrier separating inside from outside.

I think a lot about emptiness and isolation, and about the stark and melancholy contrast between what is timeless versus what is fleeting. To this end, I create demarcations and empty spaces. I surround myself in synthetic films, physically cut off from others. I pair organic forms and delicate, translucent materials with cold, hard, industrial ones. I perform repetitive actions, rhythmic motions, and invented or subverted rituals. Most often, the work remains achromatic or monochromatic, emphasizing form and motion, and imparting a cold sterility that amplifies the sense of vulnerability and ambiguity.