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STATEMENT I have always felt out of sync with my surroundings; the photo on the cover of the box never matched the ill-fitting puzzle pieces inside. Creating art is both my beacon and bridge, because it leads me toward my true inclinations and provides constructive dissent against imposed notions of normalcy, prevailing pieties, and the misrepresentation of control as requirement by the status quo. Most of my work begins with iconic yet simple patterned backgrounds that function like wallpaper, which is often noticed peripherally as a seamlessly unquestioned environmental given. Using various strategies and media, I superimpose various possibilities which combine form and content, surface and depth, random and ordered imagery. Stenciling, for example, allows me to create a consistent but not completely uniform visual vocabulary that carries over from one work to the next, as a way of signaling possibilities of change as well as portents of danger. The use of found imagery in my art led me to my current enthusiasm for photography and video. I was often fascinated by the odd little dramas I encountered in old photographs and home movies that I came across in second-hand stores (and then later on the internet). These images had a quality that I wanted to convey in my art: the ability to suggest more than they reveal. I use photography and moving images, both found and original, as an element or tool of deception and revelation, to seduce, subvert reality, and pry open a universe of questions. |
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