About

Within nature, we find reoccurring thematic patterns, forms and structures from expressions of life discernible to the human eye, to towering woodland and even the greater cosmos. These are symbolic of the underlying metaphysical principle of the inseparable relationship of the part to the whole. It is this principle of interconnectedness, inseparability and union, as well as the dualistic nature of all things and the divine crossing of these two seemingly opposed yet perpetually intertwined polarities that permeates the work I produce, in an effort to, even in some small sense, attempt to re-establish the seemingly fractured connection between human kind and the earth, as well as expanding my own awareness of both the world within and without.

My most recent body of works explore the metamorphoses and physical transformative processes visible within nature, from the moth, to the shedding of a snake, and how these processes may parallel nonphysical or metaphysical transformations one may undergo within the human experience. I feel in today’s society, one must transition through a form of shedding process, but one that is far more ambiguous in nature than the clearly physical process of shedding a serpent must undergo If one is to ever acquire a certain sense of clarity or understanding of oneself and ones existence. I feel that instead of skin, one must begin to shed and dismantle the structures that support ones collated fears, traumas, doubts and mislaid beliefs, that have been predominantly adopted from external sources and the cultural and societal parameters of ones upbringing.

Although I usually implement multiple mediums with my works, predominantly, I explore the capabilities of screen printing, sculpture and film in an attempt to expand upon the applications of the practices and to form relationships between the natural world and contemporary art practice.