Reality is the thin crust over the roiling sea of the unreal. Dreams, hallucinations, inspirations, memories all come from somewhere else, brought into the fold of the mundane by acts of creation or expression. I find my own dreams and unrealities to be obscuring and intrusive, but also beautiful, and I let them out into reality through my artwork. My works often have to do with scale and rhythm, patterns that are self-similar but never precisely repeating. This repetition in and between works creates an effect that can be dizzying or a scale that warns you to step back if you don’t want to be swallowed whole. Whether this takes the form of a nauseously packed ink drawing, a series of photographic prints, a collection of colorful illustrations, or a network of sculptures and spatial design, I do my best to honor possibility’s multitudes.
Color and contrast are also an important facet of creating visual density. Whether in black and white or in full hue, the contrast and saturation are pulled to the forefront with bright delineations between patches of light and dark or red and blue. The patterns themselves represent the madness and cumulative weight of saying the same word a thousand times or making the same pen stroke a million over, but also the weightless flow that comes with concentrated repetition and meditation. There are patterns everywhere, a drumbeat to the universe. What I make is what I believe one might find if they could reach through reality, press their fingers through its delicate skin, and touch something new.