ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a very abstract person and I am working to include this awareness into my work. Working with digital images I seek a balance between my own love of the abstract and my desire to make images which communicate to a wide range of viewers, and create a dialogue with the viewer. I think at the base of this dialoge is issue of perception. The ways in which we see can be enhanced by allowing ourselves to see things abstractly.

The digital prints seen here are primarily an exploration into using the computer, specifically Adobe Photoshop, in a process-oriented way. Additionally, I am working with the scale of a work, and how to structure the composition so as to entice people to come close and inspect the prints. While this body of work references landscape, the content is not about a certain place: they reference the relationships that places have to each other, and within themselves.

With further reading of the paintings, some shapes stand out, almost as though they are superimposed. Such is the strangeness that I love about landscape: there can be a shape that is totally unexpected and downright weird. These paintings are meant to look enticing and perhaps a bit strange, but also for them to bring some calm to people. And then, ultimately, to confuse them. To make them wonder about the shapes and the associations they have made.

I am sure I make art for a million reasons, but here are a couple:
I love thinking.
I love learning. That is why I love mathematics so much, because it is purified learning. That is why I like to confuse people, so that they will get used to being confused, and in turn become better learners. I think education is a significant part of learning, in that teaches us to actually notice learning. Perhaps because its abstract.
I love language. Not just communicating, but thinking about how we communicate.
I love color.
I love observing.

I have come to believe in making visual experiences for people. Its hard for me to say what I want people to take away from my work; I do know that I want my paintings to entice one to look more, and to explore something one can’t understand.
Things that interest me: edges, things that barely exist, the fact that everything exists and yet does not. The relationships we form, and those that form us. The dialogue between human experience and earth’s experience. The symbiosis between nature and man, the balance between the oppressor and the oppressed.