Artist Statement
Time is a common thread for human experience.
My work deals with the persuasion of objects over time. Time alters objects to illustrate endearing aspects or become touchstones of our own consciousness. Art thereby consumes our identities and leaves us with a new personal vision of our existence. Art serves as a means for altering identity.
I believe that creating meaning, or presenting a question of meaning, is the work of an artist. My work strives for self-awareness. It illustrates connections that compel the viewer as a participant to conceive multiple associations relating to their own experience. It poses questions on the nature of being and personal mythologies of identity. This illustrates the process of awareness and experience. Through this process we experience a reconstruction and begin to formulate our identities through associations with the world around us.
Sound and image in iconic formats such as the ubiquitous screen convey the isolated thoughts of the artist and then take on authority. The urge to challenge the sense of authority commissions and empowers the audience to reevaluate their surroundings.
In Riverine, a video installation completed in 2003, a string of television monitors is embedded in river rock. Each monitor echoes the sound and image of a flowing river. This work relocates the viewer into a space outside the gallery by use of aural cues. This dissociation prompts the viewer to question their pre-formulated contextual patterns. Subverting the notion of a gallery space and the expectation of experience within that prescribed space.
With Transience, a discrepancy exists for the viewer by employing a syncretic methodology. Giant kites constructed from maps hung with authority over and throughout the installation, fusing two and three-dimensional representations of space. Cinematic still photographs exposed over an entire roll of film were contact printed as a series of prints as an analogue of time. Worn out xylophones obtained from an elementary school echo the formal play of a frame or note as a measurement of time.
The commanding central object, an aluminum boat, cradled a turntable replaying the final loop of a record in perpetual completion of a sound effects LP side. The kites were harnessed to the bow of the boat as video of a silent sail rippling from the force of wind projects ont0 the upturned lid of the record player.
Using methods of recombining materials, time travel and space travel are playfully and intensively explored. Formal elements relating microcosms and macro environments combine in a conceptual and visual format.
The canvas of space and time serves as a framework for my inventions. The mysterious physics of sound form a psychological framework for visual dissonance and exploration.