Statement
In my mind I’m an exploded painter, taking painting as my starting point and building sculpture and dioramas that get turned into photos, videos, and installations. I trace visual echos of 19th Century Romantic painting like Casper David Frederich’s Sea of Ice to televisions Superman’s (Smallville‘s) Fortress of Solitude and reconstruct those shapes … with noodles.
I’m a collector of other peoples discarded junk and tchotchkes and 19th century representations of the polar regions. I cross this with climate change writing like Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe. To my lay-person’s perspective the science is often visually inspiring. For instance the retro-futuristic sounding programing language, FORTRAN used to predict climate models with blocks of atmosphere, like a checker board in the sky, consisting of 33 hundred boxes x 12 boxes each measuring 4 degrees latitude x 5 degrees longitude. There will be stop motion animated boxes in my videos or necker cubes in my drawings!