Through the process of collecting, assembling, composing and painting, I have created a visual language in which symbols, icons and familiarity are redirected into a tense strangeness. Recognizable figurative elements draw the viewer in, bridging an immediate sense of connectivity, while the heightened colors, skewed perspective and exaggerated scale act as a sharp poetic gaze, disrupting and reinterpreting their common meanings. This balance allows for a fusion of personal memory and collective history to form an ambiguous middle-ground, sometimes uncomfortable.
My work fuses narrative modes including poetry, literature, film, music and collage to re-calibrate reality into unsettling destinations allowing the familiar and the arcane to converge.
