My Information
Artist’s Statement
My work is born equally from the language of filmmaking and bio-morphic abstract painting. I am building a post-human world. I make a humorous and disturbing future where the distinctions between man and nature are completely blurred. I place the viewer in a situation where they cannot tell if they are viewing a cell through a microscope or looking at the internal structure of a complicated life form. The narratives in my montages concentrate on the imaginary proceedings of surreal biomechanics.
All of my images come from digital photographs of broken machines and plant life. I use the idea of a digital montage to give these plants and machines a second life as part a futuristic sci-fi nightmare. A world where either mutated plants or wayward machines have taken over the planet. As a desktop George Lucas, I combine various widely available hi-fi software packages with classic lo-fi special effects techniques. I play god in a universe of my own design. I use digital tools to make landscapes that live somewhere between the science-based abstraction of Roberto Matta and the comical contraptions of Rube Goldberg.
My animated video installations address one commonality between biology and mechanics - the cycle in which environments are created, destroyed, and created and destroyed again. A system becomes established, functional and then a flaw or mutation occurs, that causes a colossal change. There is a drama and beauty in these events. These life cycles form the narratives of my installations where my absurd view of the future grounded in a reality that is inescapable.
