In the visual art side of my practice, I explore the interplay and causality between drawing, painting, film, video & animation. I view my work as a "queering" of art, film and technological history that dissolves categories in hopes of advancing and honoring the interdisciplinary conversation that has always existed between these art forms. In my experience, such histories are quite multifaceted and can reveal new narratives depending on how you approach them.
I'm fascinated by our ever growing relationship with the digital, and I use consumer-grade technology such as iPhones & home projectors in this work to mirror the integration of the analog & digital that I see in daily life. I'm interested in our short attention spans & what it might take to hold our gazes longer. I'm interested in the over-stimulated, over-exposed space that many of us live in, the digital landscape on full blast. For me, this body of work is, in part, about light and light's importance to discovery & sight. I think of Prometheus, the myth of the cave, camera obscura & the lightbulb. I think of the television, the computer, the smartphone, and how our current digital landscape is a spectacle made possible by light.
For my latest drawings, I have positioned a projector 6 feet above my work space pointing down. Here in a flurry of gestures, I attempt to capture the moving image on the page or canvas. It's an impossible task, full of glitch, fragmentation, abstraction and unpredictability, and I relish the tension between legibility and illegibility created and the intensity of the unseen performance that unfolds during each work. I’m interested in unexplored narratives and relationships, and I tend to work from videos and animations featuring my own body, movement, and poetry. In this work, I am flirting with the disappearance of the human form into the oversaturated digital landscape of the present.
Building on the visual language of my drawings, I create oil pastel paintings that delve into my relationship with my body and how others perceive it. These works bridge traditional image-making and abstraction, their layered textures evoking the analog imperfection of the VHS tape technology of my childhood. Through them, I examine themes of disappearance, vulnerability, and exposure, reflecting on what it means to exist in a world increasingly defined by surveillance and digital detachment.