I want to talk about some of the difficult imagery in my work. My work grapples with significant forces at play in our world today. I use a small pantheon of figures to harness and channel these forces, in order both to reflect, and to reflect on, our world. These contemporary forces may be terrifying, and they may manifest as difficult and challenging imagery. The figures I make come out of my concerns and worries, but I do not use them to offer my judgments or opinions, as I have no interest in a didactic art. Rather, I see them as crystallizations of dynamic forces, built for the task of meeting the complexity and competing tensions of these significant forces.
Statement on work, 18 October 2023
Statement on work, 18 October 2023
Statement on work, 18 October 2023
I want to talk about some of the difficult imagery in my work. My work grapples with significant forces at play in our world today. I use a small pantheon of figures to harness and channel these forces, in order both to reflect, and to reflect on, our world. These contemporary forces may be terrifying, and they may manifest as difficult and challenging imagery. The figures I make come out of my concerns and worries, but I do not use them to offer my judgments or opinions, as I have no interest in a didactic art. Rather, I see them as crystallizations of dynamic forces, built for the task of meeting the complexity and competing tensions of these significant forces.