Statement

I am a visual artist who works with paint, charcoal, and ink. My work leads the viewer through a psycho-narrative told using expressive, ambiguous, and representational imagery. The brain’s automatic response to an image is to make sense of and attach a reason to it. Once this attachment cements in the mind, it becomes almost immovable. Experiencing my work hopefully encourages the audience to balance on the knife’s edge of their own subjective recognition and formless experience. Going back and forth between those two states of spatial reasoning creates uncertainty within perceived reality. The longer someone looks at my work, new interpretations percolate up through the unconscious. An allusive understanding might cultivate within the observer and cause them to see their world and the people in it through a broader lens.

Much of my inspiration comes from experiences that connect us or push us apart and the ideas that define how we see the world. The artists Max Beckman, Egon Schiele, Lee Krasner, Chet Zar, and Francis Bacon have come to influence what I do when faced with making an artwork.