Artist Statement
My work is about levity/grounding in our unremarkable/remarkable times. My images are allowing an odd, uncomfortable edge to observations of social awareness in our plugged in culture. Levity translating to loss of consciousness at the precise time that lightness is revealed. Grounding is when touching base becomes the attachment to consciousness. My images in levity depict socially critical fissures of tracing the way humanity is looking/viewing. In grounding my work reveals self-identity as an unstable compromise between social dictates and personal intention in the off moments in time. My paintings, works on paper, films and photographic images are about the off moments in time. Time in between time. And these particular movements expose vulnerability. That vulnerability in humanness transfers in those off moments.
Living in New York, I was fortunate to be allowed to think about my artwork as more physical, more about assemblage, and most essentially about being confronted with the notions of “in your face” humanism. Now living in the west coast I am fortunate to embrace light.