The subjects of my work are the corpus, memory, dissolution and (re)construction. I am focusing on paring down, dissolving, (trans)figuration.

I have a hard time letting go of the body. I cannot let go of text. All work is text. I approach text as a Gnostic – every read reveals. Every work is a text. Recurring themes are life/death and trace.

Currently my work encompasses a variety of approaches with digital video and print being the most common. I also work through drawing, painting, traditional silk-screen, collage, installation, etc. In all of my work the process involves gathering images/information/language; editing and layering. I often seek to strain the limits of the medium’s ability to communicate. (How far can I push and extend digital, for instance, before it breaks apart and the image gets lost?)

My process is poetic – semiotics and constructions – demonstrated meanings through context and (juxta)position, through construct and metaphor – art is the realm of the mind – The mind is the space in which reality is called into being, a place of conceit and connection.

My work strives to provide access to this space – to open “the doors of perception” – William Blake’s doors - not Aldus Huxley’s or Jim Morrison’s. Reading the works and critical analyses of Plato, Plotinus, Chomsky, Beuys, Bochner, Baldessari and Chin have influenced my thinking. I also enjoy reading Umberto Eco, et. al.

Concerns which drive my work:
Epistemology – the study of the nature of knowledge, its possible validity

Metaphysical – an umbrella arching over the physical; extremely abstract or theoretical; without material form or substance; originating not in the physical world but somewhere outside it.

Language, the foundation of text and the material of the mind: frames, calls into being, allows conception, provides meaning. It originates not in the physical world but in the realm of the mind.

Gnosticism – “salvation” comes from learning esoteric “truths” that free humanity from the material world…

In application, the (re)reading of a text, and the (re)investigation of a set of ideas.

Agnosticism – not knowing and knowing not knowing; to question.

Material vs. immaterial; commodity vs. de-commodity; real vs. perceived value.

Matrixing

I take an adopted medium to the edge of its ability to represent. The goal is for the medium to assert itself in a series of happy accidents. A practical example of this would be Breathing in which low-res footage was expanded beyond its intended application with resulting distortions in the image and a limit on its ability to communicate information. Likewise in the sound for that piece, low-tech recordings were used in the same manner with some sound being “found” while other samples were specifically recorded for the work. The sound is layered so that again the medium’s ability to communicate information is limited.