Artist Statement
My artwork is a mix of personal journal, documentary, and impressionistic narrative. Its content develops out my research and involvement with individuals dealing with brain trauma, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. I produce prints, collages, and participatory installations that reference the inherent time-based elements of story telling and memoir, but imply the deterioration (decline) of sensible narrative progressions. I often use book structures as a way of mediating a story by tapping viewers’ expectations; and I am interested in presenting challenges or discontinuous shifts from that norm. I am not an “edition” printer, but create one-of-a-kind assemblages, artist books, and printed props that function within the context of performances or relational works.
I recently discovered/invented a new process that allows me to print etchings on the surfaces of three-dimensional forms using a vacuum former, photo-printmaking films, PVC, and plaster. This presents an exciting opportunity for “pages” to further exceed their conventional two-dimensional limits and physically fall onto the floor. A good friend and colleague, Nathaniel Stern, is also introducing me to new technologies that I intend to incorporate in a new collaborative body of work. I’m excited about investigating how to further manipulate spatial and time-based elements, traditional and new.