My work has consistently dealt with spatial perception. As both an artist and an architect, I am interested in the terrain between two dimensional representation and three dimensional space. I began making art out of a desire to analyze and challenge spatial perception. As my sculptural work evolved, incorporating color and translucency, I became concerned with both the spatial configuration as well as the emotional climate established within each of the pieces. The use of sandblasted glass in the recent work has a twofold purpose – it acts as a trap for ambient light – allowing the color to ‘fill’ the space it encloses, and it creates a veil obscuring the colored spaces from direct, unambiguous interpretation. This quality of unresolved desire is something important for me in the production of my work.
I began making photographs in 2003. The photographs are Three dimensional still life set ups with two dimensional images of spaces projected on them. The resulting images contain confounding discontinuities of space and surface. An image is successful, for me, when it transcends both the reading of the still life, and the reading of the projected image. Those two conditions coalesce into a new topographic space.
I am interested in visual contradiction.
I am interested in the quality of elusiveness
I see architecture as a means of framing nature, a place to be apart from nature, to apprehend nature.
I am interested in things that are not ‘actual’, but rather have some quality that remains a bit outside of the here and now. A gesture towards other absent spaces.
I feel that beauty is necessary.