The Global Community 2013-ongoing. With these paintings I am interested in visualizing the problematic aspect of being human. Their narratives are an exploration of our relationships to the natural environment and to each other as a social organism. Recurring themes are human exploitation of nature, social inequality, and physical conflict. I use a collage like process and I attempt to let the stories develop freely in what I think of as ‘fictional post-modern histories’ . They are composed from travel sketches and my own travel photography as well as images I find on the web, in the news, and in advertisements.
Hot nights, wet dreams (2013-2015). While attending an artist residency in Barcelona I spent a few nights out on the Plaza Real and I became fascinated by the culture of the night. Bars would close at 5 am and there would be long lines for the ATM’s as people withdrew money for all kinds of illegal commerce, including drugs and sex for sale. This series explores the idea of night time taboos and “illegal” exchanges.
The Nuclear Family (2012-2013). Narratives were composited from my family photo albums and explore ideas of American Identity and family values in addition to contrasting those narratives against backgrounds of the nuclear industrial complex including Hanford (near my childhood home) and INEL (near my father’s family’s farm in Southern Idaho).
