RESEARCH

My practice involves an insatiable fascination with architectural spaces that evoke a sense of physical and psychological disorientation. This compulsion toward an aesthetics of bewilderment fuels two concurrent modes of work — installation and sculpture. Each format articulates differing aspects of my chosen subjects — often feeding upon and cross-pollinating one another in the process.

My installation work comprises the larger trajectory of my practice. Within this mode I fabricate odd intimate spatial scenarios into which the viewer is invited to physically enter and explore. These hybrid constructions inhabit a tenuous space between architecture, environment, installation, sculpture, and theatrical stagecraft — and act as delivery systems for the often-baffling species of subjects I am interested in communicating.

I seek to disorient the viewer to break the staid, often detached, passive, and familiar approach to consuming artworks. I believe that it is in this close space where authentic communication between artist and viewer occurs. To this end I employ tactics of individual viewer experience-such as inviting the spectator/inhabitant to crawl, crouch, lay, or adopt an atypical body position as they explore the confines and sensory stimuli of each piece.

My recent work investigates the tenuous co-existence between the rational (post-Enlightenment materialist worldview) and the irrational – and how these antagonistic ontologies often co-mingle to shape our current cultural landscape. A recovering child of Catholicism and the Cold War, my works possess an acute fondness for cultural marginalia: the science-fictional (the post-apocalyptic, the weird, the eerie), Forteana, the occult, alternative history, and conspiracy theory.