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While combining still moving videos and sounds inside sculptures, my work is a collection of object, image, sound, and text that concentrates on ideas of perception. I want the experience of viewing/hearing to be like falling out of a dream. Or like in the midst of your daily commute when you can’t recall the last ten minutes of your journey and the lines between physical and imagined spaces begin to blur. In such moments, sound serves as catalyst for the mind to trail in/out of the present. Space blurs as private memories become collective ones. Distraction becomes a new form of focus as refection becomes a new form of distraction.

I spent my formative years traveling throughout Europe and the United States which has contributed heavily to themes of transient exploration in my work.  Although I consider myself a photographer at my roots, I incorporate a variety of media in my artwork. I am interested in utilizing the strengths of each medium to highlight a cross-disciplinary and contemporary approach to art making that uses both new and old technologies together. Since 2007, I have been collaborating with Chicago-based writer David Berthy on Observations from An Outpost which contributes heavily to underlying themes in my sculptural work.