My artistic work focuses on the flexibility and layered quality of perception. I am fascinated with what I call reminiscent form – non-literal images that are unnameable but that evoke a sense of the familiar. Though my work is often abstract, it uses metaphor to give form to emotion and to discuss the relativity of meaning.
I work with created images, digital scans and video to execute my intention. My recent still images create a mini-world landscape from scans of natural materials and found objects in magnification. They are, in a sense, photographs of places that do not exist.
At present I am working on a video series – Laws of the Universe – which uses the physics of objects in reaction to unique environments to illustrate aspects of human psychology.
Laws of the Universe
This series of video pieces uses simple, constructed “physics” experiments to create metaphoric examples of the human condition. In Ice on a Hot Plate #1 and #2 I recorded the reaction of ice to heat. Resistance and Release observes objects relating to each other when moving through a dense medium.
I am fascinated by how the non-physical mirrors the physical; how the inanimate in motion can appear to have personality, or can be a screen for projections of meaning.
The tools of the scientist and the artist are very similar: experiment and observation. As an artist I am tapping into the poetry inherent in nature to articulate a personal vision.
