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Artist Statement

Technology bares the brutal aspect of choice. Innovation equals options, and in options lie change. We say that life's transitions define us, but transition is more than that which binds us into sets of emotions, responses, and physical attributes.  Transition is the driving force behind our lives. Towards every conquest or failure, one by one we make the decision of self-awareness or denial. Whether or not we choose to tune in or out to the unlimited changes that envelope us, we are consumed in each breath inhaled and each step taken to a point of continual confusion.  And it is in choice where my art lies.

By making visible internal conflict I search for the shadow of turmoil. With the figure I reach to capture a state of being resting on the threshold of change - the cusp of decision, exploring the potential for personal transition poised in the interstices of choice. I depict the continuous moment between the "yes" and the "no". A body or personality overwhelmed by the metamorphic process of external and internal choices exists violently, humorously, and quietly. To this humiliating purpose I hang each doubt with cynicism and each statement with gravity. After all, I am, and so are you, just something made of many parts.