It’s all in the mind, you know.

I began by working with ideas of home and homesickness. I spent a lot of time in airplanes looking down at the land and thinking about how we deal with our sense of displacement, isolation, and with what we leave behind.

This sparked an interest in the psychology behind it all. I began research in this area and allowed the flow of interest to take me from area to area of both brain function and emotion, making work that responds to both.

Experimental combinations of media and allowing intuition to guide me as to which avenue to explore next allows me to map the attributes of psychological topography in the form of abstruse landscapes rendered in various mediums from projections and large scale paintings that feel like theatrical backdrops, to small scale washes of inks over microscope imagery, creating lush textures. I then digitize these paintings as well as small hand drawn sketches, recombining compositions in Photoshop. Layering these components creates a space I can find respite in.

All of this together creates abstract visual metaphors that resemble aerial landscapes or topographical images. I am utilizing this intuitive process that alternates between digital and analog as a method of examining my relationship with space and self. The result is an exhibition that allows the viewer a glimpse into my imaginary head space, if only for a moment. 

 (photo credit: Ryan Davis & Amy Gibas)