Artist Statement REVISED.

My work was sparked initially with a fascination of architecture. It is an interest I’ve had since childhood. I am a very tactile person. This desire for texture led me to begin looking at architecture and relating it to Russian Constructivism. I began looking at interlocking form and structure. Combined with personal struggles of being an emotional person that lives in an anti-male emotion culture and unrest with the ideological inequality of men and women, I make work exploring these ideas in juxtaposition with a study of architectural structures and human structures and the conflicts created.

My images sometimes evolve into installations. The elements involved in these installations make use of motion sensors, lights, video and sound to encourage interaction and immersion. These elements are sculptural in nature; large and small structures, anthropomorphic and rigid and explore the creation of space. The compositions presented are part of the larger study; the combination of engineered structures and human structures, architectural phenomenology, the study of how people react and interact with structures.

Each installation space has an image as an initial visual reference point. These images frequently speak to Dali or Magritte in nature and are intended to further push the environment of an alternate reality. A place where the issues presented are done so in a way that cannot be ignored and must be considered. The images reference the stiff architectural structure and the flowing human structure, but never directly. When one sees a problem or the potential for a problem the brain must resolve it. Photographs don’t allot this type of resolution when a question is involved and that forces the viewer to make their own conclusion about this issue presented. This type of persistence and reliability of a viewer trying to break down the meaning of intestines in a Victorian-esque image is exactly the obsession that fuels my work. The intestines are a cue; given to push a unique sensation that can trigger a unique experience. I want my images to be connected with emotions, a personal feeling for each viewer; because the viewer is bringing their own understanding to the image, structures and space, this data informs their answer to the questions that I have presented.

By creating their own narrative with cues of conflict, space, structure, and image, viewers can better understand the meaning personally and further meditate on my work. The meaning then becomes the product of their own interpretation and further yet the viewer shares as much with the space as the space shares with the viewer.

This is all.