Artist Statement

 

I   shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed.

Sylvia Plath, The Colossus, 1959

 

My work can be described as aggressively additive drawings-collages depicting the anthropomorphic hallucinations of a fiction writer or mad scientist. The majority of the work features a cast of distressed characters in-between monster and miracle, human and animal, alive and dead. Fantastical yet real personages are depicted in the enigmatic process of gradual dismantling or in uncertain states of metamorphosis. My recent drawings, which are also diagrams of themselves, are bizarre amalgams of biomorphic abstraction and representation. The visual and narrative organization of my work is informed by research on cognitive disruptions caused by various physical and psychological disorders (schizophrenia, hallucination, and phobias), traumatic or supernatural experiences, despair, and drug abuse. I am conducting ongoing research about how the mind, when affected by mental and emotional illnesses perceives reality. I am applying these same principles to my artwork in order to question the boundaries between real and imagined. The concentration on fantastical but yet real aspects of psychical and mental disruptions is integral to my art practice.