STATEMENT OF WORK

I am a communication artist, informed by physical and digital communal spaces. Drifting between these planes, my work strives for both an archival eternity, and a timely decay. During the pandemic, I have had an interest in documenting spaces of gathering, mostly concert venues and bars that I remember. A dreamlike warping of people and places I have known, laments those that have changed and disappeared, preserving their memory in these idealized, yet temporary spaces. These are places I have longed for in social isolation, to be enveloped in a crowd now still seems like a frightening proposition. There are elements of film and other media which inform the compositions, and often add to the figurative storytelling, which fills out the otherwise empty documentations of spaces. This process involves researching the remembered structure, and reconstructing it through photographs from my records, as well as the internet. In this, the romance of nostalgia interacts with strangers on a train.