My work speaks to the balance between man and the natural world. I attempt to highlight the constant flux and fragility of that relationship. Through the use of different mediums, often presented in communion with each other, I am able to capture an array of emotions and visual textures. My pieces are polyvalent and allow for a multi layered experience to develop with the viewer. My practice covers mundane, repetitive activities similar to those found in standard work settings and juxtaposes them with the unpredictable aspects of the natural environment around us. I try for each piece to stand alone as a poem and often combine them with works from other mediums to create an even larger metaphor. Through ink drawing, sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance I can explore multiple angles to a similar theme. I often find that I require these different mediums to express diverse thoughts. Although sometimes political, my work draws on the viewer's internal feelings to define the work. Each piece serves as an ink blot; an instrument for entry into the conscience of the ultimate viewer.
A golden thread exists in my body of work that becomes more apparent as time is spent with the different series from different mediums. The struggle between man and and nature is apparent, but mostly serves to expose much deeper issues such as war, hunger, waste, accountability and most importantly balance. There is also a constant reminder that patience is of the utmost importance. I can spend days cutting thousands of numbers from client sensitive documents and gluing them in collage; burning the scraps; hours drilling holes in shells that remain from food I have consumed for sustenance; stringing those shells up in mobile sculptures; months collecting discarded construction metals; carefully balancing those mobiles with them, where only the slightest change can end the life of the piece; days forming wood over frames for a gigantic lotus flower; weeks bending steel around jigs for a huge rib cage; hours stacking hundreds of books into a free standing wall; diving head first through it; nights combing a neighborhood to remove dead trees from dead fences.
I often find myself taking the banal and enriching it to create something extraordinary; giving eternal life to materials that would otherwise be discarded. In every medium I ultimately try to simplify the image to find the essence of the idea; the true inner tone that can then resonate without interference.