About

Utilizing humor, spectacle, meta, and paradigm I create events and objects about communication, often by layering small pieces of information to create a new and unique identity or experience.

These works address the potential for communication to get lost if too many ideas are being projected at once. Consuming and projecting information are inescapable human functions. We are in a constant state of deciphering and projecting information. By infusing examples of meta and paradigm I address communicative concepts and subjects of observation, expectation and identity. This is a process that is not only a part of viewing artwork but a part of existing in a state of self realization and self actualization.

By stripping down the element of the human voice I use vocal sounds that are not official dictionary defined words but are still recognizable as communicative and expressive language. When these nuances are layered on top of one another, multiplied and exponentially repeated the communication becomes indecipherable and chaotic. This depicts the potential for language to literally get lost in translation despite the individual nuances having objective connotations.  (Human Sounds for Communication, 2001)

I also create sculptural objects that address the process of viewing art objects. (Eye to Eye Series, 2016) By combining found objects and moveable structures with implied elements of personification I am addressing the visual process of viewing an art object as the art object 'views itself'. These sculptures are examples of the relationship an art viewer has with the art object and the paradigm of the process. In creating this paradigm I am connecting the process of visualization from the viewer to the object.

As with the nature of conversation, my work breaks off into tangents. Just as artwork and artist intensions struggle to communicate specific ideas, my subjects adapt by the organic processes which all concepts and conversations are effected by.