As a life-long learner, I prefer asking questions over making pronouncements. I value curiosity and being adaptive. I make work to surprise myself. I prefer visual discovery and seduction over distilled meaning. Awe over argument.
Intellectually and creatively, I can’t sit still. But the perception and exploration of space has driven my work for more than two decades. In my art, I have investigated mapping and, especially, cognitive mapping; the phenomenology of engaging with Google Street View and other online place-based images; the Situationist International strategy of “dérive” (wandering through urban space); constructing images as visual synecdoches; and the shapes of unreliable and evolving memories. Foundational to my practice are landscapes, still lifes and figurative work—all because they are foremost studies of space.
Most recently, I have focused on the suburban sublime (in all sincerity) and the spatial intimacy of wonder. In a time of political, societal and technological upheaval—in response to the crush of unrepenting and unrelenting egos that currently shape our culture and to the algorithms of intelligence being trained to replace them—my imperative is to engage local life, valuing nature and community beauty over the promotional and striving self.
Intellectually and creatively, I can’t sit still. But the perception and exploration of space has driven my work for more than two decades. In my art, I have investigated mapping and, especially, cognitive mapping; the phenomenology of engaging with Google Street View and other online place-based images; the Situationist International strategy of “dérive” (wandering through urban space); constructing images as visual synecdoches; and the shapes of unreliable and evolving memories. Foundational to my practice are landscapes, still lifes and figurative work—all because they are foremost studies of space.
Most recently, I have focused on the suburban sublime (in all sincerity) and the spatial intimacy of wonder. In a time of political, societal and technological upheaval—in response to the crush of unrepenting and unrelenting egos that currently shape our culture and to the algorithms of intelligence being trained to replace them—my imperative is to engage local life, valuing nature and community beauty over the promotional and striving self.