My art explores the metaphysics of the unknown.

I approach abstraction as a feverish fragmentation of knowing; a form of illegibility that arises from the repressed and secretive. 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.

Working in mixed media, I explore the slippage, bleeding, and layering of wet and dry materials as an allegory of spreading, obscuring, and mutating information. This includes laser printed digital images from internet searches as well as cyanotypes of plants (real, fake, AI-generated, and art historical) and optotypes. To embed digital images into the substance of my paints, I blend printed images into a paper mache pulp. 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 unknown, 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.