My art explores the metaphysics of the unknown. Philosopher Eugene Thacker refers to the unknown as “darkness,” or “that which lies beyond,” and contends that it creates a “knowing of this unknowing.” I am interested in the ways we attempt to make meaning in darkness—at the edges of comprehension.

I approach abstraction as a feverish fragmentation of knowing; a form of illegibility that arises from the repressed and occult. Working in mixed media I search for compositions intuitively and by abstracting conspiratorial and perceptual subjects. The surfaces both suppress and reveal through layers that reflect various forms of unknowing: subconscious desires, distant memories, faded dreams, buried secrets, destroyed evidence, conspiracy theories, information overload, AI hallucinations, subliminal messages, disinformation, manufactured consent.

In addition to conventional media, I embed digital imagery into the substance of my paints. To achieve this, I blend printed images to create a paper mache pulp as a hybrid of paint and collage. In addition, I use color-match technology to scan colors from printed images to produce custom latex paints. Through these processes I imbue materials with deconstructed images, dissembling information in response to epistemic crises.

Gripped by obsession with the knowing of unknowing, my work speaks to a paranoid uncertainty: the urge to cast off illusion and reveal hidden realities; the suspicion that everything happens for a reason. The result is a body of work trapped in a state of vertiginous incredulity.