Pure Taste Indicator - Artist Page

I work in various materials and mediums, frequently utilizing video, sculpture, and photography. My installations are site specific, both in terms of context and architecture, they incorporate and reflect back on the space in which they are displayed (usually quite literally with photographs and recordings of the exhibition space). By activating tensions between low-tech sleight of hand and slick digital imagery, between faux finishes and natural materials, I work to blur boundaries between visual forms. I aim to create an experience where things stay in a state of relativity, never settling on a “thing” itself, or on an original or definitive identification of something. In essence, I’m trying to pull apart our belief in the existence of definitive things— including ourselves. Through a mixture of original and found content, I reveal the entanglements between personal identity, imagery, objects, and space. Much of my work questions the notion of the self and explores the inability to imagine an instance or essence of it. Representations of subjects flow in and out of the fictional and the self-referential, intermingling with the medium of the work, which is also self-aware. Selves become shapes, shapes become objects, and objects become selves, causing indeterminacy between the fact and fiction of the self (and the other).