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ARTIST STATEMENT:
My body of work is dedicated towards exposing the truth as I perceive it. I thrive in examining the details of things
and in the perception of subtle emotions, the microscopic turn of a single brush stroke so minute in its material yet
momentous in its expression. Understanding how one thing relates to another, how all things are connected at some
point and the way influence is spread through time are all factors important to the development of each of my projects.
Getting the details right and hopefully noticing things others do not. As important as it is to deliver a striking and
successful outcome, the thing must be grounded in reality for its exaggerations to hit with impact. Practically this
means pushing the formal tools of production to their limit of precision and intensity, spinning tall tales that in their
lies and formal beauty speak something more correct than a simple summing of their parts.
Personally, I am struck by
the feeling of near total disfunction in all areas of American society and contemporary
humanity’s foolhardy insistence
on placing profit extraction and wealth consolidation above creating a hospitable planet
for life to continue to exist.
The banality of evil, the horrific elements of “normal” society that continue day after day
wearing a smile genuine and
not. The dark core beneath all of existence, the undefinable context within which we came
to be seemingly out of
nothing. Great art does not provide answers to these difficulties but it can lighten the emotional
load, for the imagination
is a land without territories, unencumbered by the friction of material and as such fertile ground
for hope. Art is both my
way of interrogating the world around me and the weapon I wield against it.
