Statement

Invocation is a word that connotes magic. It can be a prayer of entreaty or a formula for conjuring, or a petition for help. My work is an exploration of popular culture, myth, and fantasy as conveyed through print and mixed-media. I am continually drawn to ideas and events in western, popular culture that blur the line between fantasy and reality. Utopias and dystopias, religious extremism and cults, rock n’ roll and heavy metal music, alchemical and mystical symbolism, and ufology, are all fodder for my work in printmaking and mixed media. As an artist, I find these ideas and related imagery act as illustrations for the cultural fragmentation of our contemporary society.

My recent work alludes to fantastic, magical, and mystical spaces. Juxtaposed and submerged in these prints and mixed media works are images from the films Woodstock and Gimme Shelter, heavy metal album art, the Mormon Tabernacle, alchemical symbolism, and ancient ruins. Using appropriation, collage, mixed print media, digital applications, and video projection, I create layered imagery that both elucidates and obscures. Using collage and printmaking I create images that fluctuate in-and-out of being by layering media overtop of one another. Working in collage is an act of destruction, building, distortion, and reduction. I want the viewer to experience imagery that is easily peeled apart, temporal and shifting. I am interested in creating works that reference the beauty and terror of the sublime, that walk the line between representation and abstraction, form and formless.