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I engage in an ongoing investigation, which focuses on the visual mapping of the relationships between form, materiality and the connection of aesthetic universals within the modernist dialogue. While this may sound like a formalist enterprise, the way I approach a project is in a manner comparable to archeology (the reconstruction of the visual landscape premised on its trace.)
Subsequently, what is at the core of my interest in image making, is the science of looking and understanding how I identify with environment. The assembled compositions are informed by direct observation while the resulting images are built through successive applications, which transform their material (paper) with each passing mark. The resulting patterns are connected to both systems of reading language, and coding that envelopes mass communication and consumption. The skeins of content serve as a way to address function, power, comprehension, history and experience.
This becomes a means to create my own language of visual iconography that is capable of defining an aesthetic universe—while substantively defining and solidifying a personal context within the contemporary conversation of art (image) making.
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