I am inspired by the everyday objects, patterns, games, and linguistic commonplaces of popular customs. I use, re-arrange, and re-present ordinary materials and signs in order to explore notions of individual identity, objectivity/subjectivity, history/fable, and the inherent value implied by a gesture or act of intervention. Many of my artworks can be read as waves, signals of hello or goodbye, in which the meaning of the work exists in the participants' ability to infer meaning based on their knowledge of everyday media, beliefs, and situational context.

To date, most of my creative projects have drawn on the use of repeat patterning and aural/visual sampling as a means to create graphic images, while studying human behavior and modes of reasoning. I often work with print media, design, and sound to create sculptural installations, animated video, and performative gestures that employ “repetition” as an ideological concept.

Consequently, I am also interested in ideas of abstraction— as it relates to form and the distillation of meaning within a system, mode or sample. I consistently work with a vocabulary of graphic icons and motifs to explore the technological translation of symbols and information within contemporary culture, e.g. the coupon dash, scantron test forms, ICU life monitors, game interfaces, and word processing programs.

How are symbolic meanings and technological functions translated and appropriated over time? Are there connections between the practical meanings we apply to symbols and technology in the present that can be linked to past histories and visceral explorations of the subject? These are questions I seek to ask in my present work.

I wish to immerse myself in the research and application of vocabularies of motifs, encoded information, and operatic functions in an attempt to make non-linear and abstract associations involving the "perceptual event" of experiencing signs and signifiers—as static and moving images. Conscious and subconscious methods of interpretation come into existence within my two-dimensional and time-based work, asking the viewer to mimetically identify with the subject, while considering the source, method, and sequencing of their display.