Artist Statement

My primary goal is to present the viewer with a situation designed to allow personal interpretation of an abstracted environment.  These abstractions, however, are not always literal manifestations of components within the organic world.  This is to say that flowers are not incorporated as circles, trees do not become cylinders, or leaves manifested as ovals, and so on and so forth.  Instead, I dissect various forms such as the flower, tree, or leaf and combine them into much simpler terms such as line and texture.  Possibly a more accurate description of my work would be “conceptual reorganization” since most all the forms I construct are generated from my personal experience in the natural environment.  By visually deconstructing various objects I encounter within an organic environment and then reassembling the various components I am presenting the viewer with an object that, at first glance, may seem alien or indistinguishable.  Upon further inspection, however, the viewer will realize that the answers to their questions are hidden in the world that surrounds them.

Function is also important in many works I create.  The accessibility of the utilitarian object is what makes the functional arts especially provocative.  Function is a comforting way to present an audience with complex relationships of concept and form.   At first glance a cup is a cup, a plate is a plate, and a bowl is a bowl.  This initial analysis eases the viewer, or user, into an artistic situation.  Upon further inspection the user of a functional object begins to see how complex the object is.  With a combination of functional form and well integrated concept I present viewers with an accessible art easily adapted to their daily lives.