Statement
I am an observer, and an investigator. I take what I see in my everyday and make it mine. I create a reality that I find hard to manage and difficult to articulate. I learn as I go. I have a level of spontaneity related to my interests and impulses. I am however calculated and thought through. I seek a balance that does not exist. I relate to most of my everyday via emotional reactions towards generalized situations. I embrace hunger, and being hungry, both in a metaphysical sense and a literal sense. I hate, love, panic, fear. Society deems these emotions to be a sign of weakness. “You shouldn’t wear your frustrations on your sleeve”, “play it cool”, “Be normal”, and “act natural”. All too easy all too obvious, all of these emotions are meant to be private, for only a select few to experience. My work explores these emotions and these psychological breakdowns and turns them inot art. It’s all about business and being something that you want to be, not who you are. American society force-feeds my generation with this need to be better, look better, act better, taste better, clean better, drive better, work better, think better, feel better. My work investigates death, fear, panic, hate, envy, and lust. I find simplicity in overcomplicating my life. I am human.