Art / Projects Blog

My work explores visual dichotomies, the spectacle of consumerism, and the ways in which class distinctions are represented and glorified. A few formative years spent as an amusement park Carney lent me an appreciation of the power of garish surfaces to attract attention while simultaneously masking whatever unsavory realities lay beneath their carnivalesque exteriors. Later, a career making props and dressing theater sets afforded me a view into a world where the distances between the audience and what unfolds on stage create spaces where uncomfortable ideas can be examined in a non-threatening environment.

I’m interested in harnessing art’s power of the uncanny to introduce these kinds of theatrical moments into life. I am primarily influenced by the historical movements of Lettrism and Situationism, which sought to introduce art into life as a means to form ruptures into everyday patterns.