Artist Statement

My work is concerned with structures, the sacred, the senses, and the sublime. I utilize architectural foundation as an entry point to invisible structures, including social constructs, personal identity, notions of façade, and material hierarchy. The traditional function of the classical structures in my work is often subverted or manipulated through design, material choice, and/or installation. I minimize architectural elements to a scale in direct relationship with the corporeal form. Using architectural framework as a surrogate, I draw a direct connection between our somatic relationship to structured space and how our orientation within it affects perspective, experience, and meaning.  

I seek to imbue my work with an agency that extends far beyond my own fingertips. Sensory information such as scent and light push the work further forward where I can no longer reach. Like a physical, proprioceptive experience within a soaring architectural space, light and scent are encompassing and unavoidable. These sensations extend the gesture of the work into multiple dimensions of comprehension and in/tangibility. It is through these portals that the sacred & mystical realms can be accessed. 

I want to strip away the superficial layers. 

I want to reconstruct the canon. 

I want to find meaning in exalted nothingness.

I want to be true to my perversions. 

I want to move forward, not proceed straight ahead. 

I want to prostrate myself at the altar of heresy without undermining my reverence. 

I don’t need to know, but I want to understand.

2020

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