Remembering and revisiting a place in your mind, has a certain rhythm and pace. You can easily zoom in and out, sometimes leaping forward or backward. It’s not linear. You can recall a situation from multiple vantage points and sometimes recall the scene as an observer and see yourself in the picture. It feels similar to actual perception, but there is an oddness that signals your brain it's actually a memory.
I believe my work can touch the viewer in the most basic way, by firing parts of their brain that are similarly active when they remember or recall a situation in their mind. By studying memory and brain function, I’m intensely trying to match something primeval, beneath consciousness but absolutely real. I want it to feel familiar and comforting, but without knowing the source or for certain why. I see something similar in early 14 th century Sienese paintings, and am trying to replicate it for today.
I work with cut paper, trying to make the words and phrases on paper-back book covers feel the way you experience non-randomness of a normal day.
Born in Los Angeles, I live in Austin, Texas and New York City..
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