Current Work

My current work is about reassessing the notion of privacy. I use imagery that can be seen as benign or even slightly silly as a metaphor for my own and, my presumed perception, of other's private lives. My motivation is to create a visual language as a form of personal communication, but this communication is simply an abbreviation of unrealized situations. These "abbreviations" act as anecdotes that allow for multiple configurations. Each square is entirely anomalous and individual - the viewer has the power to rearrange and re-contextualize any number of peculiar narratives and possess them as a story or compose a completely fabricated scenario. The ownership then belongs to the observer more so than it does to the creator. This transference of ownership allows the viewer to possess and interact with the work on a personal and intimate level. This begs the question of whose interpretation counts? I enjoy playing with this delicate balance of power.

This series, From One to One Hundred Million, lends itself to candidly deal with issues of intimacy, vulnerability, trust, curiosity, and odd temptations with subtle and sometimes underhanded humor. The attempt at creating one hundred million paintings is not to simply set myself up for failure, but about creating a completely unrealistic goal that I aim to achieve but am fully aware that I cannot. My main objective is about trying to meet impossible expectations that lean on the edge of absurdity.