Statement
Artist's Statement
I view this tool I’ve made as an intermediary between the material world and the spiritual. Using abstraction and luminance, my work invokes the same sense of transcendence that can be found while deep underwater or in viewing images of outer space. I see my practice as a way to transform the mundane lived experience into something elevated and unrecognizable. I use my photographic work to create spaces that feel out of the ordinary in order to pull the viewer away from their current reality and into a new awareness.
As a whole this work is about disparate parts fusing and falling apart again, things arriving and departing over and over--internally, externally, personally, cosmically, psychically. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, but it constantly changes. Bold and bright shapes cut through the darkness, only to give way to small specks of light in the void. Coalescing, disintegrating, and coming together again, everything is continuously brand new but consistently made of the same material as before.