photograph by: Christopher Levy
About
Using the idea and themes of life and death I play with commercial art versus the fine art and incorporate meaning through the use of Western and Eastern ideas and symbology using what is seemingly kitsch materials. In my artwork, I juxtapose these strategies through content dealing with fantasy, myth, dream, life and death, the unknown and the psyche while using references from books, religions and historical imagery. In working with these varied ideas and concepts and appropriating from existing literature, I ask myself many questions: What is it that I have done/created? How will my audience view this? What is its value? Where is it taking me? I am also interested in portraying time and I look at how I’ve used it and ask more questions. Am I spending time wisely here? How can I gain time? Where am I losing time? Is time used in a linear or cyclic way? How is time represented here? Asking myself questions like this in dialogue with the work as it progresses leads me into a kind of labyrinth of thought and dream.