I have spent much time yesterday, today and knowingly tomorrow making lists and organizing my life; it's an innate behavior. It is not just my living area that needs constant tidying, but also my schedule, my ideas and my artwork. My organizational skills are not only methodical, but a way of life. When I perceive my environment to be in chaos, so then am I. The need to control my surroundings becomes an endless cycle of setting 'things' in their respective places. This endless rearranging and urge to control my environment is indicative of my art making process.
My immediate surroundings, interests, and relationships provide the elements and inspiration for the foundation of my artwork. I'm repeatedly aware of the influence of mass culture and find the sampling of visuals from my surroundings as predicate for the development of my works, pieces that speak to our need as human beings to control or make sense of our environment. I envision many of my pieces as collage, employing multiple techniques to create a cohesive work.
By taking existing bits and pieces and placing them into new contexts I force their meanings to rely upon neighboring elements, creating an intersection between two items that may have never crossed paths, like the Surrealists' attempts at Lautreamont's "chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella". I look for those cross sections of dissimilar components, especially from mass media and bring them together in the form of multimedia experiences.
Artist Statement
