My experimental mission is to fuse idea to material to process and create an alchemical space where elements of architecture, cartography, landscape, cinema, symbol, surface, contour and horizon line all may co-exist.
Thus my image-making ideas draw from a wide-ranging mix of interests: from botany to technology, science to science fiction, camera obscura to cinema, typography to printmaking.
“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table” (Comte de Lautreamont)
In the spirit of one of my favorite art-historical quotes, my current work aims to create discrete images through combination of found and printed paper collage, drawing, and various image transfer techniques. Drawing from a diversity of source imagery—textured paper, textile patterns, line diagrams, maps, notational fragments, anatomical drawings, along with images of patterns and textures found in the natural world—I seek to create a set of cohesive pictorial ideas from unrelated fragments.