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Within the allegorical identity, scrapworm, I collect ‘scraps’ to create narrative contexts and abstracted patterns that respond to my ontological questions. I gather examples from the world document (of which I experience the landscapes, societies, and artifacts) as visual fragments that seem tragically ironic, beautifully balanced, sadly empty, terrifyingly inundating, or (especially in found print materials) absurdly propagandized. I intersperse these scraps in a range of scales to articulate cartographic ground-shifting networks within decay aesthetics.

I associatively express my impressions of interrelationships through collage and assemblage, trying techniques and approaches to themes in various or combined mediums. I experiment with photocopying/scanning original and appropriated photographs, wet paper adhering, editing video, and designing digital projects - also making small prints, drawings, paintings, and sculptures toward remnant combinations as filtered by my sense of reality and time. I work with objects and space as ‘topographies’ built through repeating archetypal shape variations.

I manipulate Xerox, found objects, and timed reactions (exposure to fire or water) to evoke distressed survival in installations and studies, materially referencing the mechanical production capacities that shape contemporary comprehension of authenticity and distribution (including the macro-scale production of press images and machine parts, consumer relationships to photography, and reliance on appliances). I pursue presenting projects within the urban landscape (site-specific video projection, postering, and windows) for public/architectural contextualization.

My projects imagine future wastelands of the ‘American Dream’ that foreshadow themselves by investigating subtle determinants. Currently, I'm considering the reverberations of the ‘Atomic Bomb Age’ as insight to contemporary conditions, using research-acquired materials that express threat and/or panic through belief system-defining representations of human experience and historical events. LIFE being but one of my various sources, I study/use published images and words to enhance my understanding of influences on 20th Century opinions of progress, efficiency, survival, and authoritarian ‘fear/faith’ dynamics from a psychological perspective within the influences of apocalypse culture.

Critically, I see my work a mutation of influences resulting in technocratic expressionism by combining ‘post-apocalyptic scatter, grunge photomontage, and renegade/subterranean constructivist’ inspirations. My art making reflects my philosophical concerns and the information age in history via suspended metaphoric maps. I "paint" with information, tears like drips. My work is rooted in exploring cultural meta-language, the infinite nature of the universe, and collective memory.

look out

2004
114.3x114.94

tempting the appetite

2005
31.75x21

tangle

2005
96.52x91.44

evacuate

2005
63.5x44.45

troglodytes

2005
91.44x91.44

I'd rather be

2005
91.44x91.44

fighter screen

2005
60.96x60.96

building boom

2005
acrylic medium and paper on roofing paper
91.44x132.08