STATEMENT OF WORK

I am invested in the secret ingredients of star quality: an indescribable ability which engages the most basic, intrinsic senses of aesthetic pleasure. My goal is to appeal to these senses, however distant and abstract they may seem. In my process, I allow myself to be led by impulse in order to access this fundamental feeling of visual satisfaction.

My work does not represent my direct mark as much as it does my decision-making and responsibility to enable the materials to perform. The complex choreography of surfaces and materials works to obscure not just the source images, but also my hand in the creation of the pieces themselves. I aim to locate the star quality in the interplay between layers of gradated color with an arrangement of steel hardware, the sheen of frosted mylar, or the moiré of silkscreen mesh.

All of my source images are screenshots of found footage, mostly from low-quality iPhone video captured by audience members and posted to social media. The kinds of images I select must pass my specific criteria of visual elements: the correct amount of ambiguity or distortion, appropriate composition or lighting, etc., but the most accurate way I can tell an image is worth keeping manifests emotionally as a deep resonance, love, and excitement in looking at it. The resulting work aspires to reproduce the sublimity and intensity of this moment of discovery.