Statement
I am dedicated to exploring structures and boundaries of awareness that arise out of the practices of everyday life. I engage, question, and subvert these boundaries through conceptually oriented and interdisciplinary projects involving ideas of personal identity, individual representation, and human presence.
My work negotiates representations personal identity in a number of ways: traveling to Bulgaria to retrace the transactions of my stolen identity for the Stolen Identity Project; retaining two attorneys to present my intellectual interests in a group discussion in Performance Law; and also by reproducing video stills of desperate men as intimate photogravure portraits in Cupid Connection. Recently my work concentrates on the perceptual manipulation and modeling of "in-between" architectural spaces. I am concerned with the relationship between experiences of place that are formed and altered by abstract notions of space. These pieces operate in two ways: in the Model series of images, I utilize large-format photography to manipulate the perceptions of scale and photographic believability; and photographs from the Evidence series document the detritus of human presence in various social spaces.
The focus of my work has recently expanded from traditional print and photo techniques to include elements of performance and video. I am trained in both printmaking and photography (BFA 05, MFA 08) and employ a creative process that allows me to fuse performative gestures with issues surrounding concepts of identity, representation, and social spaces. By tying each project together through a conceptually oriented practice, my work explores the idea that meaning may be diffused across multiple methods of producing art.