Artist Statement
As a cheeky, sweeping generalization regarding my work I’ve called myself a landscape artist. While this is not far off from what could be considered the truth, I owe it to myself and the audience to elaborate.
What has always fascinated me beyond full comprehension is the innate solitude of existence. I believe the best way to communicate my meaning is through a mathematical metaphor: the asymptote. The asymptote is an imaginary line that borders a curve on a graph. The curve and the line graphed will perpetually get closer and closer to one another until infinity without ever reaching a point where they meet. This is our reality as individuals, we will forever approach one another, and every other thing for that matter, with impenetrability.
What grounds us in the reality of our solitude—and as a means of retaliation— what would allow us to transcend this theoretical boundary ? That is what my work stands for. To construct scenes instead of representing landscapes that convey our individual existence located in the world we share. It is the setting where we can meet one another, it is a vague memory of every place you have been before, where I have been too. It is where our paths cross.
Currently, my work is surrealist landscapes that focus on the creation of space, and explore how space can be mediated by the presence and/or absence of bodies. In the past, I have worked heavily with paper making as the ideal vehicle for my practice. However, stemming from my love of the visual results of paper making, the challenge to develop work in other media has been an extremely fulfilling and captivating endeavor—one that has greatly fueled my artistic practice.
Being inspired by my love for movies and the worlds that exist within them my works reflect that by being creations of imagined spaces that still take roots in real places and experiences. My work then is akin to still scenes from a movie where reality and irreality co-mingle, where your solitude and mine meet and are mediated.