You have to keep enough of the organism for it to reform each dawn; and you have to keep small supplies of significance and subjectification, if only to turn them against their own system when the circumstances demand it, when things, persons, even situations, force you to; and you have to keep small rations of subjectivity in sufficient quantity to enable you to respond to the dominant reality.

Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus p. 160

I want to engage the viewer in the place where the collective mind meets the individuals’ consciousness. My installations use light, technologies, video, transparent and ephemeral structures to explore the fragile nature of existence and impermanence of being.

Being object, place, and space-- the installations draw from diverse bodies of information, merging the architectural, the biological and the landscape. These combinations are used to emphasize the correlations between the physical, psychological and metaphysical facets of reality by drawing attention to similarities between various systems.

This ontological/phenomenological understanding of a multifaceted external reality creates a dialog that directly mirrors that of the internal reality of the individual. Interdependence and introspection connect ideas defining our personal identities to embodiment, existence, time, lifespan, intimacy, power, and our connections to one another in both the public and private experience.

Using form as a means to explore theoretical or formless truths I link internal, external and collective dimensions. In this way my work exerts a belief in a formless or unseen realm of existence that precedes philosophical, scientific or spiritual human understanding. In doing so I will often validate one system of logic with another separate and seemingly disparate system. For example, linking a theoretical component such as the above quoted philosophical text of Gilles Delueze with that of a scientific theory as with wave-particle duality in quantum physics which will in turn validate a spiritual principle or theory. These concepts are congruent with axioms pertaining to matrix string theory also known as the theory of everything. They however stand in direct opposition to most post-structuralist theory that suggest and exert nihilistic and anti-humanist messages. My work challenges these beliefs by placing them in tandem.

Visually, many of the works also oppose a simple childlike fascination with the objects referenced to the cold post-structuralist messages they challenge. In doing so the playful, anti-heroic, vulnerable and unguarded structures represent transcendence of being in the face of the intellectual antagonist.

My most recent works include performance video installation using water, sound, time and my body through ritualistic or staged events to further explore these concerns. The video works use my personal and biographical experiences to explore change, cycles, myth and allegory. All of the works place emphasis on humanity and the condition of human awareness.