Artist Statement

My investigation has to do with nature as much as culture. The fascinating combinations of textures that unravel with time and that we can find on an aging wall or a fading billboard. The artworks to be found ubiquitously and which we can see upon the surfaces of manmade structures that develop through weather and time. And to give it a more literal association to man and the times he is living parallel to this wall, we see culture and influences through the images and texts provided by the pastings — evidence of our age.

I think it all came together in New York when I began photographing walls and subway billboards, finding compositions in nature but with the provisional hand of man and his time, fading textures accentuated by contemporary texts and images. The wall signifies the expanse of time, while the pastings a time in point and their relative quick passing.

I was always fascinated by finding artifacts in the most random places, that had been carved by the hand of man or weather or a combination of both. Small details within a greater landscape that harmonized into compositions illustrating certain processing of conscience usually narrated by a theme. In the same, the work is not making a stand or posing an opinion but rather allowing the viewer to form their own, as time itself allows. Momentary glimpses and understanding of a greater world, or elements that stand on their own. My work concentrates on the detail which inspires investigations that translate from momentary understanding to a profound meaning. A snapshot perhaps of a continuum but also of a time and a place. It can resemble anything of the likes of the world you find under a rock, or perhaps an old kitchen cabinet once you remove the linoleum, offering the natural world to inevitably be a part of the boldest font or imagery we create — the natural world blending through time with the nature of man.

Most of my works carry motifs that draw upon contemporary issues, whether through news clips, images or slogans that fade in and out of the compositions at large, much like our opinions, reflections and even experience of the particular evoked within the cosmos of time and our tiny present. It is more to bring notice and not necessarily make the central theme, but only a part, like laying the cards out on a small portion of the table, it exists as far as the viewer chooses to give it significance and how. All in all they deal with the human attempt to process the particular while confronted by the much.