artist's statement:
Like a poet who uses two different words to form new meaning,
I make relationships of images—the intimate interior of a house and the landscape outside—reaped
from familiar surroundings to reveal ideas. These ideas seem to center around
absence and presence; more specifically, I consider that meaning comes out
of the absence, and makes itself present. The "empty space" between
the poet's two words, where words encounter and influence each other while
still retaining their distinct identities, is the area of activity. It is
that which seems void of physical presence that holds the possibility of
meaning.
The conversation between inside and outside (be it physical or psychological)
remains the strongest idea behind my work. This metaphor of physical space
has the ability to be always present yet fleeting in our daily lives—a "background" loaded
with meaning because it reflects who we are and how we live.
Recent imagery has focused on handwritten poems, paintings, books, and other objects used to "escape" in the domestic space. The ephemeral nature of these objects reveals a new "interior" and an additional psychological space.