THE THING IN FRONT OF YOU

STATEMENT

My visual cues come from what I find in the world; combined imagery has been my point of departure throughout my career. In the studio I challenge the objective reality of the photograph and transform it into something else. I am driven to find music in the cacophony that bombards us.

 The Thing in Front of You began after Covid lockdown in 2021. The health crisis reminded me of our fragility and the fractured nature of the world, yet despite isolation, we are never totally alienated from the times in which we live. Much has changed. Trumpism, destruction of property, environmental catastrophe, personal loss, increased racism, divisive political systems - yet the air is cleaner and there remains extraordinary beauty and joy to be found. How do we make sense of this? In life, we synthesize the random and discordant information that confronts us, and I find that process mimicked in artmaking. To a greater degree than my previous works, these images foreground the process itself. They visualize the ways in which we sort and assemble disparate bits of reality and organize them into a coherent and harmonious whole, while maintaining the sensation of collision and disruption that is the very nature of modern experience.