ARTIST STATEMENT
Currently I have been looking to nature and using
common weeds and wildflowers as inspiration. Although my forms are derived from flora, I am interested
in stripping away the “organic “ qualities and translating them into abstracted silhouettes that bear little resemblance
to their predecessors.
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I
embrace the planeular quality of the forms; the simplicity of the shapes allows for the accumulation of layers of visual information to occur. I
use colors and combinations that are vaguely ugly. Shades that could masquerade as designer colors, but
are just too something: too dirty, too sallow, too wrong, but almost right. I use pattern and take comfort in it. I respond
to its systematic, ordered confusion and use its repetitive structure as the basis to compose my forms.
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I freely borrow
stylistic motifs from the decorative arts and combine these incongruous elements to create work that pushes a decorative eclecticism
to the point of excessive minimalism. I employ an aesthetic, which revolves around layering my work until it is on the verge
of visual collapse. As I add each sequential layer, it is like playing Jenga, where the last piece threatens to push everything
too far. This approach allows the work to re-compose itself and find a new coherence.
