My art practice is an act of navigating experience, fiercely picking and rifling through our collective visual world, determined to capture meaning out of the present moment. As an artist I intuit the present as an ongoing, yet fluid, narrative, telling of that ever-changing moment of origin. I imagine this origin as metaphor made concrete through art- with reflections as varied as the surface of a jewel - containing and offering moments of awareness: memory, emotion, thought and sight, a vision to be offered, not prophetic, but equally determined. I want my work to reflect a multiplicity of forces and dimensions; embodying that impossible contradiction of human consciousness- the immensity, the sheer vast possibility of awareness - constrained by the humbled and finite moment - in which we can only make sense of our individual little bits at a time. The mediation of awareness and the imposed distance of reflection render the local universal, and vice versa. With a degree of urgency, I am looking to find and capture the importance of a small story, made important through the shared discovery and meaning of investigation, connecting this moment to a much wider world.