In the future, what will drawings look like? Humans have drawn since the first thumb was opposed, and despite the prophesies of various silicon pushers, there is little reason to believe that mark making will ever cease. Technology and its impact on the past, present and future has long fueled my work. Everyone is busily changing everything because we have discovered that we can. Nothing makes any sense because we are continually bombarded by heaving masses of multilayered information that are far too complex to be digested. The old world is being phased out and it is the task of the contemporary artist to figure out how to perceive and depict the new one.
Pictorial representation can no longer adequately depict a contemporary perception of reality.
So I go back to drawing, go back to the beginning. By minimizing, breaking up or eliminating the traditional picture plane, I compose my images as algorithms rather than frozen views. I intend my works to function as visual experiences rather than as static images. The elements in the drawings are intended to serve as memory triggers, sparking thoughts in the viewer that form the meaning of the work. The source material and the content of my work comes from personal experience and are drawn from the world as I move through it. My role is that of an antenna and a filter. The images and embedded text are organized in such a way that the likelihood of the eye encountering them in the same order more than once is minimal. As each viewer comes to a piece with a completely different set of memories and the triggers are nonsequential, the pieces, like reality, can never be experienced the same way twice.
