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I use seemingly
benign, somewhat enticing, imagery to draw my audience into a layered and unsettling world of complexities. Among the
kitsch and banal I cram the gross, grotesque, obnoxious, and weird.
I am an opportunistic miner of "the cultural landfills"
My imagery is a collision of sources, styles, and subjects that operate in an open ended and non linear construction of
reality. Like the Internet, and a good soap opera, there are numerous inlets and sub narrative paths that intersect
with a network of others. Crawling over, climbing out, hiding within, and digesting its surrounding; my work plays with image
glut choc-full of cliché visual puns, and deadpan humor. I hope that this humor operates as a coping mechanism and ice-breaker.
I work with
readymade systems and personal narrative as a departure point. These structures provide me some parameters to start finding,
hiding, and projecting imagery. I embrace spontaneity and let the work take on its own life remixing the boundaries of the
pre-existing source. While I hide personal narratives within the work I am less interested in autobiography,
and more so in the viewer recognizing their self within the complexity.
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