Utilizing massed materials I look to create an energetic impact where a poetic dynamic is felt before the content is understood. 

With these visually complex works, I strive for a physical and metaphysical experience. Through layered yet lyrical assemblages of everyday materials (tire shreds, tar, car parts, paint, bits and pieces of communicative systems—ie meters, maps, measures, text), the works play between the boundaries of painting/sculpture/drawing—works that consider the edge between 2D and 3D—all seeking to connect our everyday world and the magic of aesthetics.

With the use of blown-out retread tires, metal, handwritten NPR text, stitching, tar and lace, I aspire to set up an interplay between the brute/force of the road and fragile domesticity—targeting the chaos, confusion, and instability of our daily lives. Our ability and disability to understand the fractured world around us I set against the natural vigor and exuberance that we find in life itself. Part of this is aesthetic, part positive energy, part horror, danger and death.

The visual pleasure from the abundance of massed surfaces and explosions of black conglomerates can also become metaphoric for the danger of engulfment—individual/psychological threat, as well as, ecological disaster. Retread blow-out tires are representative of the all-American landscape. By disrupting viewer expectations, I seek to present and question our indulgent contemporary society, as well as, present an aesthetically dynamic experience.