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 perception and comprehension where speculation and conspiracy originate.

My fascination with conspiracy began as a teenager after 9/11 when my desire to understand the event led me to internet theories about secret cabals that supposedly controlled the world. I found the idea that everything was an illusion both deeply unnerving and intoxicating. In subsequent years conspiracy culture has grown exponentially, producing a paranoid visuality that has become a predominant lens for making sense of an increasingly incomprehensible world.

It is through this lens that I approach abstraction as a feverish fragmentation of knowing; a form of illegibility that arises from the unknown and occult. I derive imagery from rabbit hole internet searches into conspiratorial subjects that I then abstract in various ways. Through these strategies I respond to the epistemic crisis that has emerged from the intersection of an unstable economic order and the proliferation of information technologies. The surfaces of my work operate as an allegory of suppression and revelation—tearing at the fabric of perception in search of some concealed truth. Drawing on logics of subconscious and conspiracy, my work speaks to the urge to cast off illusion and reveal hidden realities; to the suspicion that everything happens for a reason; to the disbelief in official narratives and credulous belief in the heterodox. The result is a body of work overwhelmed by ambient paranoia, in a state of vertiginous incredulity.