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Some Statements My work usually starts within a conceptual framework, integrating theory, research, collecting, and personal fascinations. I am also concerned with craft, presence and form. Choices of media and materials are largely guided by both conceptual and formal considerations. Themes based around formal structures, belief systems, emotional states, perceptual phenomena, conflict, dark humor and cultural motifs are pervasive throughout the work. The work exists in a curious balance between referential and ambiguous. These ideas often occupy a space between the known and unknown, the seen and the unseen, the visible and the invisible. Situations are formed where experience can supersede understanding. The process, pieces and installations are cyclical, repetitive, complementary, contradictory, interconnected and tangential. I am interested in experiences that are non-linear and often non-verbal where themes, forms, emotions and ideas can change direction and transmit from piece to piece. The projects are not intended to form a single resolved meaning or narrative, but rather to provide opportunities in which the audience member becomes participatory in the processes of perception, experience, mystery and recognition. My art is neither definitive nor closed. |