“In a Changing World, metaphor renders the truth of experience as the truth of knowledge, for it is the means of passing from individual immediacy to an established public world; the new must be linked to the old, and the experience of any individual must be connected with that of his society…
Joseph Campbell
I am a Multidisciplinary artist. I started as a painter, painting figures trapped within the 2 dimensional space of the canvas. Working with clay to make man out of dirt, I added a 3 dimensional aspect allowing the figures to push out of the canvas or wall and invade the space of the viewer. I gave each figure a narrative sound track. They become my altered egos.
At times these clay heads come off of the wall, become a part of my performance and I shape-shift into multiple consciousness. I document the performances with video and photography.
My studio practice is a commitment to creating myth and ritual through the use of narrative performance art, video, sound, drawing and installation.
The art I make is about our individual burdens, insecurities, and self prescribed traps, walls, armor, masks, stereotypes that we wear/carry out of habit, comfort, fear, sloth and shame. However my work also explores our ability to transform, resist and escape these traps.
I am interested in the idea of multiple consciousnesses as a means of escape and empowerment. I use repetition and multiples to explore the possibilities for the characters I create. A figure may carry many heads dragging them behind her destroying them as she ascends steps, a figure may repeat in a grid of prisons or a figure may repeat in an infinite number of chameleons changing colors and pattern. While there are always personal narratives, this process also creates stronger dual narratives that contextualize the individual as a reflection of society. One is many. Many are one.
Joseph Campbell
I am a Multidisciplinary artist. I started as a painter, painting figures trapped within the 2 dimensional space of the canvas. Working with clay to make man out of dirt, I added a 3 dimensional aspect allowing the figures to push out of the canvas or wall and invade the space of the viewer. I gave each figure a narrative sound track. They become my altered egos.
At times these clay heads come off of the wall, become a part of my performance and I shape-shift into multiple consciousness. I document the performances with video and photography.
My studio practice is a commitment to creating myth and ritual through the use of narrative performance art, video, sound, drawing and installation.
The art I make is about our individual burdens, insecurities, and self prescribed traps, walls, armor, masks, stereotypes that we wear/carry out of habit, comfort, fear, sloth and shame. However my work also explores our ability to transform, resist and escape these traps.
I am interested in the idea of multiple consciousnesses as a means of escape and empowerment. I use repetition and multiples to explore the possibilities for the characters I create. A figure may carry many heads dragging them behind her destroying them as she ascends steps, a figure may repeat in a grid of prisons or a figure may repeat in an infinite number of chameleons changing colors and pattern. While there are always personal narratives, this process also creates stronger dual narratives that contextualize the individual as a reflection of society. One is many. Many are one.
