Artist's Statement
Today, our interactions with the world are indirect, taking place through various interpreters, second parties, filters, and screens. Contemporary life has hard-wired us into these omnipresent mechanisms, leaving our baser human nature unattended. Faith, custom, and culture itself are pressed in-between glass slides and examined under a microscope so that the larger picture, the context, is entirely lost. These investigations attempt to reduce a largely visceral experience to mere statistical analysis. In a society obsessed with data, pie charts, and tables, it becomes increasingly difficult to experience anything primal or true.
We may respond to this phenomenon in one of two ways. The tempting option is to become overwhelmed and crippled. The other, the avenue I have chosen, is to find it inspiring and challenging. My paintings attempt to investigate how a solitary person confronts the absurdities of real life, past, present and future – in those moments when the interpreters have become silent.