“artist statement”

i am interested in exploring obliteration of meaning, image literacy, and how these two concepts play off each other. by making my work through often painstaking and detailed processes, i attempt to remove myself from the room and instead place myself behind the process so the viewer can look in relative solitude. i obliterate my images through various maximalities: too close, too many, too big, too overworked, too harsh...

while i primarily define my practice as “drawing”, printmaking offers me a method of process-based seriality that allows me to capture these maximalities without getting myself in the way. i suffer image-centric semantic exhaustion at some point in every print, i.e. the image no longer makes sense to me or has an emotional value. it becomes a point on a sheet of data points that i am manipulating to wind up with a technically competent print. this is a powerful tool to have when working with imagery that can be confrontational.

apart from these concepts, i am also talking mostly about Gay life, masculinity, Camping, fetish culture, consumer consumption and disposable material goods, craft traditions, pathos, and violence.

“playing with my food”, sequence of four linocut prints, each 11”x9”. 2024.

“somewhere everything is beautiful and kind”, diptych, each 22”x18”. acrylic on board. 2024