My work investigates the intersections between identity, ecological entanglements, and the emergent roles of new technologies.

Using a variety of materials, I create paintings and sculptures that question our relationship to our environment, new technologies (such as AI, social media, and industrial automation), and how these relationships shape our conceptions of self and society. I explore possible worlds where climate change, ecological degradation, and artificial intelligence take center stage and then filter these topics through an internal landscape or lens of awe, personal narratives, and dreams. My work is embedded with an inherent questioning of humanity, discord, and balance in society. I use symbols and abstractions as a device to open a dialogue between the artist and viewer and the artist and the outside world.

Foundational to my work is an expression of self, the studio practice, and the dialogue between my worldview and significant artists of the past. My central method of making focuses on thinking with material and is process-driven and open to improvisation. I typically work on several pieces at once to develop an art-ecosystem. I deconstruct and fragment works to incorporate them into others with the goal of generating new and unexpected juxtapositions. Each work tells a story within the layers of material culminating in narrative or existing in the realms of abstraction.

Essential Incantation of Discernment, 1.0A-GCON Basic Summoning:

In seeing the difference between:
Debussy and Monet
Debussy and Ravel
Monet, Cézanne, Pissarro
It can be...
how do you comprehend
Agnus Martin
Look at the art of the early 20th century
Look at Picasso, Demoiselles d'Avignon, Cézanne or Matisse
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Kandinsky
Demoiselles d'Avignon
Matisse
Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Fluxus Artists, Yoko Ono

Before Picasso
Raphael

white canvas
honestly transcribe
what is in my brain
things in common

de Kooning, Giacometti, Beckman, Guston
Asger Jorn

Favorite materials:

wood, steel, clay, foam, paint, assorted hardware, 3D-printed PLA, found objects, and play-sand.

I often recycle materials from past works until the piece is stabilized and concluded, or the materials are dismantled and discarded.