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-------Peering into one’s own consciousness stirs up many difficult questions of power and autonomy. As part of society, we live and operate within a vast web of interrelationships; our very identities, emotions, and intellect are constructed and continually transmuted by numerous factors beyond our control. For example, how much of our every experience is a result of our inherent genetic makeup, invariable cycles of nature and weather, the surreptitious pull of social influence, or the primordial force of human nature? In this modern society our daily life is much different than that of our predecessors, yet we are still subject to many of the same basic hopes and fears, aspects of the human condition that have remained constant throughout recorded history. My work addresses the continuous transformation and growth we experience through internal as well as external pressures of daily life, while also exalting the intense beauty of simply existing in this world, amid and despite inevitable hardships. Content and imagery are often largely about personal narrative; however, I feel that it easily transcends a purely autobiographical purpose and becomes something more universal, as none of the anxieties I feel are by any means unique. Taking cues from the Symbolists who aimed to “clothe the idea in sensuous form,” my work employs both established and invented symbols to express the essence of things by suggestion; appealing to the emotions and the unconscious mind as well as the intellect. Drawing material from folklore and mythology as well as from science, social customs and religion, I seek to form meaningful connections to modern life and emotional experience.

-------My most recent body of work explores the inherent incompleteness that plagues all human experience--our perception and memory being naturally imperfect, undeniably inexact. It is in our nature to yearn for completion, for narrative wholeness--to seek to fill in the gaps. We crave familiarity, we long to connect ourselves with other people through shared experience. The memories of any one person hold incredible capacity to reanimate long-forgotten details and events in the mind of another as we strive to forge these connections and to satisfy these voids. Any given moment is subject to omission, misinterpretation, and imaginative embellishment, and likewise each subsequent recall of that moment is subject to repression, convolution, and dissapation. Created through a process of editing, erasure and exaggeration, my prints allude to this intractible nature of remembrance, creating implied narratives that invite a visceral response in a way that parallels storytelling, asking the viewer to reflect his own memories onto the image, providing his own context for the moment. In this way I seek to propel the viewer toward recovery of some forgotten bit of personal experience, a narrowing of some lacunal void.