Our methods of measurement determine our interaction in the world. I try to re-cast perceptions of the world by making new measuring sticks out of sound, light, and objects. My work is about the nature of our perception and how our modes of understanding the world become manifest in our future and history. I want to investigate the relationship between how we see and the cultural valuations of our surroundings. I want to pose challenges to accepted perceptions. If we become dislodged from our sense of ourselves, we are provoked towards a re-evaluation of our surroundings. When empty space isn’t actually empty and actuality occurs between the ticks of the clock, we must rethink what we know. What was familiar becomes new territory for exploration.

I am interested in cultural attitudes towards landscape and the pursuit of utopia (no place). It is the landscape that largely influences our collective mythology and culture. I compress histories and cultures, alter the pace of time, and distort physical scale to portray a psychological rather than a social or material realism. I find lines of investigation like those laid by Slavoj Zizek to be important. To see beyond predetermined standards to reach conclusions drawn from the diversity of experience is the gift of creative thought. I convey these ideas through unexpected combinations of images and media and seek to engage the viewer in ways that are physical and phenomenological. I impose specific formal and/or temporal compositions that are intended to offset usual associations with the subject matter.

I am compelled by the last words of the poet John Keat’s: “I feel the flowers growing over me.”