artist statement
The work arrives to conception from the execution and visual investigation of subjective experience, created through free imagination, the mundane daily objects, with added imagery of the dream.
I use a mixed media approach drawing, painting, printing with a range of mediums on a small scale. The process of making has less discrimination and more freedom. I create many drawings and paintings that I find inspiring or interesting without editing the process. I take the imagery created and apply them through the computer to see their relationships through layers and collage; thus creating a space in which all the elements can relate in unexpected ways. The experimentation that occurs with the collage allows for a transitional space, one in which the viewer can project onto. I alter the images with transparency and scale creating more drama and illusion to feeling and experiencing. I print out the work in large format digital prints and once again draw and paint overtop of the image. The process has many layers and levels of transformation allowing for my experience with these elements of life to create their own narrative and allow for their own transformation.
The approach to making the work is a blend of old skill and new media. The interaction of the two media allows for the romantic, the surreal, and the sublime to interact in new ways and create new relationships. The work does not deviate into highly conceptual waters, but returns to a more skill based personal investigation to the human experience.
The work is in constant flux between our levels of apperception and perception, the subjective and objective world. Playing with the delicate paradox to which everyday existence resides and our experience of the world is translated. The art objects sit comfortably between these modes of experiencing.
The work created draws upon imagery and is collaged in contradictory ways, creating transitional space to which the dream, active imagination, and human experience are revealed.