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.