Statement

My artwork is an investigation into the nature of seeing. I’m fascinated by the fundamental aspect of human perception, and how it is that we can comprehend and make sense of the world around us. I explore visual sensation, and attempt to get at the root of the experience, beyond representations, labels and symbols. I’m interested in getting closer to the act of raw perception itself.

My own experiences from childhood have molded my perspective of what it means to embody the world as we move through it. Artmaking for me is a way to more acutely examine the different components of visual perception, which include both the physical qualities, such as form, material, & color, as well as the mental abstractions, such as language, time, and memory. My aim as an artist is to bring attention, not specifically to these various components per se, but to the physical act of seeing in real space and time.

The Stackworks are the focal point of my work, and I use them as seeing devices rather than as formal sculptural objects. They’re comprised of simple alternating metal parts, which assembled together create everchanging compositions of solid and void. I use different materials and finishes, such as mirror polish and brightly colored lacquers, that accentuate light and patterns, and ultimately fracture one’s visual experience as one moves around the work.

In my works on paper, I transpose these patterns from the three-dimensional works, and capture them as two-dimensional imprints, which mark the individual moments of perception. My photography and video work encapsulates this interplay between the singular moments that we perceive, and our continuous experience as we move through physical space and the objects that surrounds us.

I aim to challenge the conventional ways that we look at things. Deeply influenced by the philosophies of phenomenology and non-duality, I posit that we can only understand the world through our senses, that all consciousness and thought derive from the interface between our bodies and the reified external world.  My goal is to prod the viewer to go beyond the boundaries of how they were taught and conditioned to see, and to suggest alternate ways of knowing the world.