My goal is to
re-experience a past emotion...to relive anxiety...
anxiety is a passive state,
and the object is to be active and take control.
- Louise Bourgeois
Stress, tension and frenzy invade every corner of the world. As much as we attempt to wish away distractions of negativity, hyper-analysis and multi-dimensional expectations from the culture at large and its myriad subcultures, the presence of these disturbances is palpable, repeatedly pressing in on one's corporeal and mental existence. Whether on a sweeping social level or a more intimate, personal one, anxiety and agitation are pervasive, even among those who feign calm and control.
I consider my work a means of channeling the endless psycho-stimuli that assault our sense of order, the abyss of disharmony that brings about a universe of chaos. My art making process is a conduit, based on the Surrealist tenet of automatism, which at a point of saturation spews visual responses to cultural stimuli or even cultural ennui. This method of creating undetermined outcomes allows me to uncover unpredictable and truthful imagery, as awkward and ungainly forms naturally confront graceful, elegant ones. All the while, my subconscious struggles for recognition.
Anthropomorphic forms explode on a wall, confronting and invading the viewer's space. Figures float by, dripping silken fluids and emitting vapors, some barely escaping collision and others attempting to rein in a passerby. The scene is not unlike the manner in which we ourselves are pulled, pushed, ignored, abraded, twisted, coerced and deceived, while drifting and surviving in an endless existential cosmos.