Artist’s Statement

Through abstraction and the re-contextualizing of symbols, my work creates new perspectives for the viewer to consider when confronted with their own relationship with the environment. The work strives to have a conversation with the audience about their own awareness of space, want of things and societal norms, by not forcing a specific viewpoint. Instead, I create images and experiences that create questions and internal conversations in the audience members to allow them to become more aware of their own space and its minute details. This is done through re-contextualizing imagery into more abstract interpretations to create internal narratives about what the viewer is seeing and how the space has been altered. It can also be done through the isolation of symbols, highlighting aspects of an environment that are typically overlooked and forgotten.
My work explores the relationship we have with our surrounding environment, both natural and man-made, suburban and urban, and how we interact and observe the spaces we inhabit and alter it for our own wants and needs. Divisions in space and territories create new relationships with our environment each time their scale and orientation are altered through physical and psychological manifestations.