Artist Statement:

I create still images, video and objects utilizing axial images sourced from media and pop culture that explore the power of authorship in collective memory. This multidisciplinary studio practice is rooted in the scrutiny of popular historiography.

Through various and sometimes painstaking methods I seek to interrupt, displace or interfere with the images that make up our personal and shared histories. This practice of arrogation allows me to confuse, append, or create a neoteric memory for the viewer. In this way I interrupt the stream of information and imagery that is disseminated, filtered, and collected. The works find context in our personal memory and in the larger postmodern conversation about what is real. We often note, in trying to understand our own history, that the images which signify the events we experience come to replace or complicate our own memories. In this way, I intend the images I produce to alter those collective memories again. Moreover, the works often seek a meditative or still moment during which the viewer can stand transfixed. This contemplative moment is an opportunity to introduce the larger context in which we collect and chronicle our communal history.