Statement
Art is always about response--whether it be a response to a mark that came before, a book, a news story, a personal event, a space. It is the tangible product of thinking and processing my environment. My work serves as a blueprint for synthesizing the constant stream of information moving through the world and creating a strategy of mobilization within it--a way to keep me moving against a current that I cannot face alone.
My work is social in nature, a participatory endeavor. Through experiencing and participating, we begin to feel that we are all part of something larger, even if we don't know what that is. Participating is the feeling of connection, of being small, of anxiety, performing, discovery, uncertainty, vulnerability, joy. Participating asks for an action, or perhaps an offering--the action of drawing on walls, walking through the city, listening to a stranger, telling your story, making mistakes, writing a poem, reading it out loud, touching the art, trespassing, crossing a threshold.
Art is always about response--whether it be a response to a mark that came before, a book, a news story, a personal event, a space. It is the tangible product of thinking and processing my environment. My work serves as a blueprint for synthesizing the constant stream of information moving through the world and creating a strategy of mobilization within it--a way to keep me moving against a current that I cannot face alone.
My work is social in nature, a participatory endeavor. Through experiencing and participating, we begin to feel that we are all part of something larger, even if we don't know what that is. Participating is the feeling of connection, of being small, of anxiety, performing, discovery, uncertainty, vulnerability, joy. Participating asks for an action, or perhaps an offering--the action of drawing on walls, walking through the city, listening to a stranger, telling your story, making mistakes, writing a poem, reading it out loud, touching the art, trespassing, crossing a threshold.
