Artist Statement

There is an interminable distance between one human and another.  In attempts to bridge the distance we climb through hierarchies and assumptions to find there are no monsters and there are no gods.  Simultaneously we realize there are only monsters and there are only gods.  Everything is intangible and misrepresented and nothing may ever actually be.  These ideas are things known on an intuitive level; ideas philosophers have troubled over for eons.

In navigating the distance between, the objects and images from my hands endeavor to attract the other, simultaneously enabling them to reach me.  Ideas about what makes a monster, a god or an innocent define the distance between us and often divide us. So the urge to define what is REAL is intoxicating and terrifying as a question.  

My attempt to define reality is made by creating objects and images (regardless of the objects’ intent to represent gods, monsters or innocents).  I create the operating and/or organizing systems.  I create myths and memories in an attempt to understand yours.  Simultaneously, I build a wall to protect my own.  Inevitably the distance remains and the artist, the self, continues to control nothing.

Not a single word uttered from our mouths about our state-of-being in relation to anything is ever accurate.  However, until my hubris gives out, I pursue proof of the real.

And yet, the quest is inaccurate in its very nature.  Such is my bliss.