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Artist Statement: I am interested in the idea of 'science fiction' and consider its' meaning not as a fantastic explanation of what could be, but instead as it relates to what actually is. A world of understandings based on one proposed fictive interpretation after another. Never really yielding anything true or absolute In a way, humanities biological utility offers only an artificial rendition of what exists in the world instead of a concrete definition, and I find myself seduced by terms like; interpretation, artificial, abstraction, synthetic, and fabrication when I regard the complexity of it all.As I work to fabricate through drawings and materials what seem to be imagined spaces, forms; both sculptural and two dimensional, the micro/macro; the elements that make up my images operate like propositions in that they lend themselves to interpretation. As abstractions their executions reference schematic illustrations, scientific diagrams, and architectural models while being organic. I discover in the work that the imagined is just as relevant as the real and that during inception the work takes on validity through its fabrication, fiction or not. I am interested in the intersections between synthetic and organic, real and unreal, abstract and concrete and in that way am intrigued by the forms and concepts associated with Utopia. It is during fabrication that the myriad of materials, that the imagery fuses together to create from many different components, one. In my current body of work, I am fascinated by the idea of environment. I rely completely on being a part of one, but find more and more that I am being alienated from it. Environments form the complicated systems and structures that surround us. On a visual level, they determine our sense of space, our understanding of form, and our sense of movement. In that way line, shape, color, and light, all synchronize and become the shifting backdrop that defines human begins and their relationship with the world. I appreciate the abstract and sometimes alien nature of that environment and in my own attempt at coming to terms with it, am working with what I call world-building to construct specific habitats within an environment. And even more, as the physical world that human beings exist in, becomes more and more removed from that environment due to their technologies, I can't help but to scrutinize the plastic plant, painted bright green, as a stand-in for something living, the neon light, or fluorescent streak, for something beautiful. It is exciting for me to consider the variant matrix and multiple in printmaking and how it can lend itself to the construction of individual components. My formal approach is a combination of drawing, printmaking, collage, and sculpture, and I appreciate the idea of context as it relates to form. As individual components, the elements in the installation seem random, but through color, shape, quanity and context, they become integral parts of the world I build. And in world-building, my own environments become, fictive interpretations of turf, terrain, place.

Artist Statement:

I am interested in the idea of 'science fiction' and consider its' meaning not as a fantastic explanation of what could be, but instead as it relates to what actually is. A world of understandings based on one proposed fictive interpretation after another. Never really yielding anything true or absolute In a way, humanities biological utility offers only an artificial rendition of what exists in the world instead of a concrete definition, and I find myself seduced by terms like; interpretation, artificial, abstraction, synthetic, and fabrication when I regard the complexity of it all.As I work to fabricate through drawings and materials what seem to be imagined spaces, forms; both sculptural and two dimensional, the micro/macro; the elements that make up my images operate like propositions in that they lend themselves to interpretation. As abstractions their executions reference schematic illustrations, scientific diagrams, and architectural models while being organic. I discover in the work that the imagined is just as relevant as the real and that during inception the work takes on validity through its fabrication, fiction or not.

I am interested in the intersections between synthetic and organic, real and unreal, abstract and concrete and in that way am intrigued by the forms and concepts associated with Utopia. It is during fabrication that the myriad of materials, that the imagery fuses together to create from many different components, one.

In my current body of work, I am fascinated by the idea of environment. I rely completely on being a part of one, but find more and more that I am being alienated from it. Environments form the complicated systems and structures that surround us. On a visual level, they determine our sense of space, our understanding of form, and our sense of movement. In that way line, shape, color, and light, all synchronize and become the shifting backdrop that defines human begins and their relationship with the world. I appreciate the abstract and sometimes alien nature of that environment and in my own attempt at coming to terms with it, am working with what I call world-building to construct specific habitats within an environment. And even more, as the physical world that human beings exist in, becomes more and more removed from that environment due to their technologies, I can't help but to scrutinize the plastic plant, painted bright green, as a stand-in for something living, the neon light, or fluorescent streak, for something beautiful. It is exciting for me to consider the variant matrix and multiple in printmaking and how it can lend itself to the construction of individual components. My formal approach is a combination of drawing, printmaking, collage, and sculpture, and I appreciate the idea of context as it relates to form. As individual components, the elements in the installation seem random, but through color, shape, quanity and context, they become integral parts of the world I build. And in world-building, my own environments become, fictive interpretations of turf, terrain, place.

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