UC San Diego

I produce work consisting of propositions and sketches tied together with the theme of how we (subjects -- both humans and other animals) negotiate our way in space. My aim is to refashion the viewer's umwelt through invitations to muse on creatures of fantastic consciousness and intrusions on normalcy. My disjunctive fictions, inspired by set design principles, recall the poetic spaces that unintentionally develop in planned dwellings, are haunted by themes of dehumanization, the dichotomies of human and non-human movement, and other elements grotesque and morbid. The structure of dreams and waking life overlap via the common cognitive element of dis- or re-location into unlocalized but embodied spaces, such as one might inhabit when effortfully retracing an event from the past or negotiating the animated, sculpted memories that make up our dream-environment. The experience of going inward, replaying an event, embodying the event through haptic perception describes the gap and time delay I am interested in. Convoluted shapes and spaces are the most engrossing-- putting myself, and the viewer, into heightened contact with, multiple sensorial dimensions