I have a compulsive relationship with multiple media, including collage, poetry, print, and relational art. Through my collage, I view the original not as an end, but as a means toward a final print, or page, in which digital enlargement of analog techniques and materials makes visible the delicacy of paper and ink. Multiplicity has always been an important theme in how I distribute my work, where I favor affordable prints and publications. I value the tranquil privacy of printed matter.
Relying as much on chance as on a long, steady, and meditative process, my work evolves through cultivated mistakes. Taking a sculptural approach to the body and its relationship to its environment, I play with the presence or absence of a figure through reductive and additive layering. By employing fragmentary texts, I incorporate experimental concrete poetry, resulting in chaotic language and information pollution. Taking stylistic inspiration from utopian, modernist ideals in art and design, my graphic, geometric, layered, texture-heavy anachronistic scenes intend to evoke nostalgia and elicit shadows of cultural mythology. The past and future fuse in the creation of a fictional and experiential universe.
New Collage: I Waited for You, 2013, paper on paper
Smoke Twice as Hard, 2008, paper on paper
My Secret Trombone Song, 2009, paper on paper
She Sees Him, 2012, paper on paper
The Pants Sisters, 2010, paper on paper
How Do My Secrets Feel in Your Ear, 2011, paper on paper
When the Music Went Pink, 2009, paper on paper
Take More, or Less, 2008, paper on paper
It Took a Lot of Energy to Make Wind, 2009, paper on paper
