Artist Statement
When working in collage I’m placing magazine pieces together which comes from an intuitive process. I’m attempting to make something that reconstitutes images like visual hallucinations; a kind of delirium. My typical scale is modest yet intimate and this invites the viewer for a closer glance. Knowing this ritual, I love to make work that rewards slow looking. That spatial intimacy feels connected to holding magazines. I've followed themes that have materialized over the years; erotic, psychologically charged, idealized bodies and sexualized undertones are pervasive throughout. Any narrative becomes a distorted familiarity, one where the viewer might identify fragments but is left to assemble the parts into coherency.
