As an artist, my work is located in using the mundane, the banal to explore the connections of one human to another. Focusing on simple images, drawn from the half remembered self they become more than their textual being, and their place. They become metaphors for place and with it examines how we construct identity on the post human world through those connections. The desire, to know, to understand comes from having lived in three countries by the times I was 15 from having experienced momentary and fleeting presences; the sun set on strange lands, from hearing the dry grass, smelling the dark earth. It is here that my work locates its desire to understand our human relationships as spatial, as metaphor, as visual and visceral. And most importantly it is the understanding that these are a construct of memory both organic and technological.Like Lippard, this desire within the work is tied into the idea of place being ‘space plus memory.'
Despite the name, memory is largely an act of forgetting. We forget specific things, and change others, watch the tides of time wash the edges. The act of forgetting creates a variety of internal displacements from our histories, our memories our landscapes, and our dreams. It is only through the act of forgetting,of displacement can we function as a society and as humans. This displacement fuels my imagination expressing the forgotten, half-remembered self, the postmodern simian. The displacement of the self inthe globalized world is at the core of my practice. It is within this conceptual framework that all my work stems from and where it is situated.
My practice involves multiple mediums including photography, video, animations and drawings. Trainedas a printmaker, the methodology of the print is how I approach all of my production and by this I mean, there is an inherent exploration of the medium within my work, a push and pull with the technical and systematic apparatus of production. Within each work, the process imbues the physical work through its particular media expressions. I allow the work itself, and its conceptual needs to dictate the media manifestation. In a real sense, my approach to the material is one of process dictated by the conceptual framework. The material process which uses push and pull of technical constructs mirrors my conceptual base in that the displaced self within the globalized world also manifests as a push and pull with memory, identity and the displacement of the self in the post postmodern world. The material is one of process dictated by the conceptual framework. The material process which uses push and pull of technical constructs mirrors my conceptual base in that the displaced self within the globalized world also manifests as a push and pull with memory, identity and the displacement of the self in the post postmodern world.