My work explores personal and collective mythologies and how they define purpose and place for both the individual and a society as a whole. With each piece I create new myths about our origins and our place, culling from both my memories and those of the cultural collective. I am particularly interested in how both these narratives--memories and mythologies--become distorted and evolve as a result of changing vantage points or perspectives. While both rest on the truth of a particular time and place, they largely become subjective and self-serving lies--constructed realities that bend the world into a shape guided by the current obsessions of those who interpret them.
My work tends to deal extensively with the human body in physical terms and with its relation to nature. Influenced by ancient art, particularly Dorian and Athenian ruins, the paintings, objects, and installations rest on a history of figurative representation and object making as a form of worship. I hope to create work that clearly articulates the blurriness of our perceptions.
