Our cultural adaptation during this golden age of technology brings up many questions and inspires an urgent need to respond. My goal as an artist is to constantly respond creatively to evolutionary milestones and flux. I want the work to spark a relevant and productive discourse about the shifting patterns of social behavior that results along side these advances. I’m interested in the everyday objects and media we use and how we may change our behavior and adapt toward these technological phenomena. Our surroundings are made up of so many objects, inventions and data that it seems only fitting to use them as raw materials for artworks when possible. In the studio I like to play with material properties, trends, habits as well as the cultural tropes that are associated with the objects of our own cultural landscape. My practice consists of a real time observation and mapping of ideas, compilations of research related to my interests and a physical studio component that can be situational, or even improvisational, but simultaneously strategic and rigorous. Above all humor remains a necessary element of the work. The following works point to the personal and social questions that exist alongside an embrace of objects and media. |