ARTIST STATEMENT
My interaction with the world is primed by the duality of a sensitive constitution and a rural upbringing. I have been making art about my life contextualized in an environment whose pace is endangered, by a place which values the ability to see, as all things observable hold informative value. My work is a document of this interaction, and whose primary concentration is within book arts, words and text, the book as a construct, and print — be it hand or machine printed.
I frequently use objects that live in everyday context through use or experience as the glyphs that communicate the exploration of the boundaries and intersections of memory, geographic location, and personal history.
I have taken, through collection, objects and stories, and built an ethnography which links my familial ephemera, the natural world, sexual experience, gender, queer representation and theory, and radical pedagogy.
