Artist Statement August 2012

My artistic practice centers around the tension between opposites.  I am interested in a consciousness created from material as well as non-material experiences, traversing between the preserved records of physicality and the amorphous possibilities of the virtual.  I favor the acts of production and interpretation.  I create objects in order to evidence the act of making, a function which continues to define my existence and human behavior.  Conversely, producing virtual things acts as a counter point to making things by hand. I find these non-material experiences to be fascinating as well as highly influential to my notion of what an object could and can be.  Through experimentation, finding the similarities and differences between these two ways of thinking about  things, objects, and materials, constantly serves my artistic practice with unique challenges.  Incorporating aspects of utility, function, and the deliberate use of my hand into my works, helps to ground the infinite and fantastic possibilities of the virtual to the everyday physical experience of making.