About
I explore the intersection of printmaking and digital mediums to abstract and process the world around me. I transform sources of meaning and information, such as news articles, emails, photographs, ramblings of text, and so on, into planes of aesthetic as a way to un-process our lived realities. In my work, I bring different parts of our sociocultural and digital worlds together to inhabit the same landscape. Through cycles of visual and digital translation, a political manifesto, for instance, can be abstracted down to a series of dots and lines and coexist with a printed pattern made from a carved block. I allow seemingly disparate ideas to live alongside each other as assemblages of imagery, whether through large scale digital prints, projections, or moving images. Information is broken down and takes on new forms in my work, such as a sea of fluid blue lines or a dizzying and vibrant collection of shapes. The original source materials used for my work are often rendered illegible or unrecognizable; they simply become sights to be viewed. In this way, I attempt to resist the over-saturation of information in the world, break down imagined hierarchies, and to take away the ability for information to be polarizing or indoctrinating. My prints and projections are alternate realities to be experienced, realities in which anything can become anything. Through my artistic practice, I aim to be a neutralizer of information in a world in which we are constantly immersed in a buzz.