Statement

painting statement

WE ARE ALL TOURISTS HERE
An important theme in these paintings is that of looking and witnessing. I am fascinated with the body language of the onlooker, and what it says about a person’s relationship to their environment and their receptivity to what they see. The work also addresses figures of authority, and personal symbols of power, especially as they interact with others, trying to hold their ground in an often unstable, alien world.

If we are experiencing a collective attention deficit disorder, a mass cultural amnesia, perhaps it is actually a survival mechanism gone awry. The fact that we have chosen fragmentation over continuity, in order that things stay safe and simple, has actually produced a sense that everything is out of context, and slightly out of control.


photographic works

I think of this work as a conversation between physical and virtual worlds. Because anything is possible with digital photography, I felt that to make it work for me, it needed grounding in some elemental, physical realm. So I based my project on a box full of sand. Conversely stated, I was drawn to the digital camera as the perfect way to record and embellish my project of pushing sand around, which seemed too raw and self-indulgent to be interesting, however satisfying.