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I have always felt a strong urge to play while I create and communicate my observations about the world. I crave experience and challenges. My work is about the human psyche and communication of emotions. My art has to be a trace of something I have experienced in my own life. It doesn’t have to be exact or pretty but it has to be meaningful to me. A mark of my passage and my thoughts at a certain time.
I am inspired by the artwork of children of all ages and capabilities. Like my contemporaries, I am fascinated by their unbridled process rooted in play and experimentation and I like to employ juxtaposition to highlight their innocence against the conflicts of western society today. I coin my genre of art as Artful Play.
I am greatly inspired by the Situationists International, the modern Pop Artists, Post-modern Assemblage Artists, Street Artists and Guerrilla Installation Artists. I admire their use of common day materials or iconography to illustrate and convey messages that are accessible to the masses.
The activity of journalling and doodling is the basis of all my work. It all starts with a sketch. I like to join my sculptures and installations to my drawings by creating a relationship between them so they communicate and challenge each other. In 2014, I had an opportunity to learn the art and techniques of Mosaics. I love the added permanence of the mosaic tiles as most of the mediums I’ve dabbled in prior to this past year, have been mainly recycled materials, ready-mades, and other ephemeral materials. I make the art I do to pull me away from the increasingly digital world that surrounds me and to create new landscapes for me to explore and get lost within...a symbolic return to innocence.
I am inspired by the artwork of children of all ages and capabilities. Like my contemporaries, I am fascinated by their unbridled process rooted in play and experimentation and I like to employ juxtaposition to highlight their innocence against the conflicts of western society today. I coin my genre of art as Artful Play.
I am greatly inspired by the Situationists International, the modern Pop Artists, Post-modern Assemblage Artists, Street Artists and Guerrilla Installation Artists. I admire their use of common day materials or iconography to illustrate and convey messages that are accessible to the masses.
The activity of journalling and doodling is the basis of all my work. It all starts with a sketch. I like to join my sculptures and installations to my drawings by creating a relationship between them so they communicate and challenge each other. In 2014, I had an opportunity to learn the art and techniques of Mosaics. I love the added permanence of the mosaic tiles as most of the mediums I’ve dabbled in prior to this past year, have been mainly recycled materials, ready-mades, and other ephemeral materials. I make the art I do to pull me away from the increasingly digital world that surrounds me and to create new landscapes for me to explore and get lost within...a symbolic return to innocence.