Artist Statement:

 

My art has been described by myself and others as absurdist, deconstructionist, conceptual, creative, stupid, angry, anti-art, cool, neat, brilliant, a waste of time, the product of insanity or a short attention span. It has been called sculpture, assemblage, installation, and the result of adult ADD. Sometimes it’s half-thought-out. Sometimes, perhaps, it’s all of these things.

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We live in the information age, surrounded by an endless stream of images, ideas, and opinions. I find it difficult to focus. My mind jumps from one idea to the next, searching for connections, contradictions, and new ways to understand art, myself, and the world around me. I explore sex, politics, religion, the human condition, space, time, addiction, recovery, television, music, love, hate, relationships, the afterlife, and the space between positive and negative.

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I try to make some kind of statement, even when I’m not entirely sure what that statement is. I want to see how people react to my work and hear what they have to say. What will it reveal about my subconscious? Will it mean something to someone, or nothing to anyone? I want attention, but often find myself uncomfortable when I get it.

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I question the purpose of what I do, just as I question the purpose of being here at all. Are we simply passing time until we die? Perhaps making art is one way of occupying that time, making sense of it, or challenging the idea that it needs to make sense in the first place.

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Ideas come to me, and I feel compelled to give them form. Whether the result is meaningful, absurd, provocative, or simply a waste of time is not always for me to decide.

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I am influenced by infinity, the passage of time, birth and death, and the work of artists both living and dead. Ultimately, I make art to explore what I cannot fully understand, to question what I cannot accept, and to bring the ideas in my head into a world where they can exist beyond me.