My work explores entangled perceptual worlds through the matrix of print media. I begin my process by observing natural phenomena—algae coalescing with ice, moss marking the bark of a tree. I document my observations in paintings and photographs, which I then alter through digital and physical processes. My installations merge the resulting works with found objects and existing architecture, thereby altering the preexisting space. Mining the tension between organic materials and digital processes, the work imagines artifacts from a world in which the natural and artificial are inextricably linked. My research takes the form of collaborations and private investigations. I collaborated with a neuroscientist to study social coordination through mirrored drawing. I spent six days in complete darkness, exploring Buckminster Fuller’s concept of synergetics (the geometry of patterns of energy found in nature). I read Calvino, Murakami, and dystopian sci-fi. I walk in the woods.
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The descriptions and prices below are arranged in the same order as the images
Where Three Dreams Live
79″ x 35″
$7,500
In this body of work, I contrast gestural handwork with digital photography over a door-shaped substrate to explore visual perception as altered underwater, behind my eyelids, or through memory.
Tessalation V
8” x 5” x 2”
$9,000
In this body of work, I draw geometric patterns onto paper, which I then coat with many layers of graphite by hand. I build up so much graphite onto the paper that the chemical composition of the object changes, and looks like metal. In this iteration, I installed the work over a digital print.
Tessalation III
4” x 2” x 1”
$5,000
In this body of work, I draw geometric patterns onto paper, which I then coat with many layers of graphite by hand. I build up so much graphite onto the paper that the chemical composition of the object changes, and looks like metal.
Tessalation II
3” x 2” x 18″
$4,000
In this body of work, I draw geometric patterns onto paper, which I then coat with many layers of graphite by hand. I build up so much graphite onto the paper that the chemical composition of the object changes, and looks
Pyramid V
18″ x 12″ x 12″
$1,800
Instead of coating this paper in graphite, I used a digital print that emphasizes the spiritual, mystical associations of the pyramid throughout much of human history
All Worlds Have Halfsight
79″ x 25″
$9,000
In this body of work, I contrast gestural handwork with digital photography over a door-shaped substrate to explore visual perception as altered underwater, behind my eyelids, or through