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I genuinely feel that to explain my work or force some kind of message or meaning onto it is to limit its potential. My work is an attempt to elude explanation. For me, art is not about language or logic, it is about interacting and reacting to one’s surroundings. My work is concerned with confronting and stimulating the viewer while challenging how we interpret and engage the space around us. My goal is to create a fantastic space--a heightened reality where everything is bigger, brighter and more excessive. This is a space in constant flux, a place that crackles with excitement and where the buildup and release of tension is made visible. Art allows me to visualize and bring such a space into being. By making art I am able to project myself and my desires onto my surroundings, thereby manipulating the known world into something different. I am interested in activating all the possibilities of the space that surrounds us, and in making the unseen seen. As an artist I view space in regards to its potential to be altered and destabilized. I have always refused to limit myself to any one medium. I enjoy sculpture, photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, and digital media. The advantage of employing these many different methods of art making is that each informs and affects the others. It is only when I am able to step back and view my art in all of its many forms that I begin to understand what is going on. When viewed as a whole, there are many themes and sensibilities that can be found in all of the work. Vibrant color always plays a huge role in everything I make, pushing it into the realm of the fantastic. In using the brightest, most intense colors usually reserved for things like flowers and sunsets, I can tap into the magical quality and allure these have over us. I am obsessed with organic forms that are constantly morphing, growing in reaction to their surroundings and each other. Movement and tension play a big part in all of the work I do. I enjoy using materials in unique ways that contradict their inherent characteristics. Each medium has allowed me to understand and approach space in a different way. I view the two-dimensional plane in my watercolors and drawings as a site of limitless possibilities. This is a place where I can create an imagined space that follows its own rules without relying on anything outside itself. There is a freedom in these works in that they are not hindered by gravity or material constraints; they operate within a unique system of their own creation. This is a space that is free from logic and reason where one element cannot easily be separated from the complex whole. I have been told that my watercolors are very sculptural because they are largely concerned with forms in space. The forms in these works create a sense of constant motion as they stretch and morph into one another; they depict a space of flux and energy in their multi-layered construction. These pieces are an intense buildup of layers of color, volume and dynamic brushwork. I work in a process of one layer contradicting and accentuating the previous one. |
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