carefully selected collection.

I borrowed this idea from my screen printing professor, burning my artist statement on a screen, and displayed it that way. I think it really added to the thoughts I expressed and displayed them in a really fitting way. If you didn't catch the show...

I view life as a carefully selected collection, and often I feel like more of a collector than an artist.

That is what we all do, day in and day out. We collect moments, artifacts, and ideas that build us as individuals, as families, as a culture, as a city, as everything. We begin to build a history.

My interests lie not only in the imprint we as people leave behind, but the imprint things have left on us. I explore the symbiotic relationship we have with the physical things that populate our lives. These artifacts have already lived a life, though maybe not specifically as a part of my own. Through their lives, they have aged from experience, carrying with them a history that contributes to a greater story.

Silk screening is important in my process of creating, as it is fundamentally concerned with layering and imperfections. While my thoughts have manifested themselves in different ways within my work, they have consistently centered on collections, imprints and stories. Every piece is intrinsically narrative, involving an idea of preservation; of recognizing a part from a whole, and the importance therein.