ARTIST STATEMENT,
My video work examines the specific, frustrated anger I experienced
being brought up a Catholic. When my mother and I were eventually
labeled "sinners" for belonging to a single-parent household, I compared
my own existence with the Church's unattainable idealism, although not
all work is related to religion, many are tied in with the same
hypocrisies. In reaction to this isolating experience, my interest in
visual art lies within the exact opposite of the ideal: the human. My
interest in the figure centers on depicting a person’s entire being, the
scars, the decisions, the people; I strive to depict an adept insight
into a person’s psyche, not through realism or practicalities, but
rather by following the path of experience and the immediate
environment. Hatching, anxious marks drive the surface of my drawings,
giving form to otherwise ephemeral emotions and psychological states.
