STATEMENT

I view the many stories we have invented to explain our place in the universe to be a profound mixture of the beautiful, the bewildering and the absurd. My paintings, prints and ceramics give these ideas form through matrices of figurative and abstract elements.

I am very interested in how the figure has been represented across cultures and time, especially when the figure appears to the viewer in a frontal stance. I am drawn to instances in medieval and Asian art, as well as 20th century culture. Some kind of encounter is implied that gives me a framework for exploring the relationship between artist, artwork and viewer.

By layering my references in an emblematic manner, and contrasting flatness with three dimensionality, new compound meanings emerge. Across different cultures I find there are many touchpoints which are separated by meaning yet in our globally connected, image-saturated world, singular interpretations are impossible, even if this was the artist's original intent.

These conditions, which operate between constraint and liberation, provide me with a rich set of parameters to work with and for the viewer to meet with on their own terms.