Artist Statement

I will be exploring in greater depth the concepts that my earlier work has been based on.

The idea behind layers, I think of it much like an onion, peeling back layers revealing what is underneath, keeping other things hidden. I am interested in early medical drawings, to me they represent a search for truth and when using them in my work the basic anatomy of humans as well as the underlying layers of ourselves. My work is at its most basic about the process of gathering together different ‘layers’ and choosing what to show and what to hide. I’ve been exploring the way changing individual things in a piece can take an individual work in many different direction, such as changing nothing more than the color used in a piece of work can transform the feel entirely. Color can give a light ethereal quality or make it dark and foreboding.
The use of photography is something I’m very interested in and will be using more often in my work, the idea of ‘realistic’ images combined with the often decayed and ‘grunge’ effects that I use ads to the dichotomy of my work. In using the terms life and death, I feel that they are somewhat rhetorical, most art is about life and death and I fell that while in the eyes of many, that is how they interpret my work, it is for me about life. At times I interject things like humor or an idea, whether it leans towards the abstract or not, into my work. This is seen through the use of color, the composition or something as simple as a portrait sticking its tongue out at the viewer.
Intense use of color and shapes, add to an overall feel of coordinated chaos, combining the real and digital effects to create a piece that expresses the inner mind as well as the physical body.

I am also very interested in other forms of digital media and will endeavor to create an interactive flash project that will explore a more photo realistic environment. I want to pursue the ideas of secret, hidden layers behind the every day.