Bio:
Creating things allows me to tear off all my skin and start a fresh investigation, without damaging my body. More than anything else, the work is about the love, the vibrating distance and magnetism between elements, the constant ebb and flow, the balance of the internal and external self, hate and the paths we weld between birth and death.
My interest lies in the teeming spaces between ideas; wrong and right, pleasure and pain, beauty and horror, exploring the brim just before perfection topples into disaster and pleasure becomes pain, a victim becomes an aggressor, life turns into death, happiness becomes mania and love flips to hate. I also try to reverse these themes within the work, probing the notion of evolution next to decay with the inclusion of the raw self working backwards, like when something is so dreaded the first response is expressed in the surrender of laughter. Sometimes the pieces are born beautiful and crisp, and sometimes they scream and feel horrific or muddled. The insides have a tendency to become the outsides and reflexive, primordial lines and colors remind me that the soul is an acceptable means of navigation. I’m eager to embrace the slop and and mortifying gaudiness of human experience, the pure intention of life, socialization, and the natural drive towards balance. I can see these properties unveil themselves in the glow of the human body, from birth to death, and all the spaces in between.
I was born in Flint, Michigan and now live in Chicago, IL.
Creating things allows me to tear off all my skin and start a fresh investigation, without damaging my body. More than anything else, the work is about the love, the vibrating distance and magnetism between elements, the constant ebb and flow, the balance of the internal and external self, hate and the paths we weld between birth and death.
My interest lies in the teeming spaces between ideas; wrong and right, pleasure and pain, beauty and horror, exploring the brim just before perfection topples into disaster and pleasure becomes pain, a victim becomes an aggressor, life turns into death, happiness becomes mania and love flips to hate. I also try to reverse these themes within the work, probing the notion of evolution next to decay with the inclusion of the raw self working backwards, like when something is so dreaded the first response is expressed in the surrender of laughter. Sometimes the pieces are born beautiful and crisp, and sometimes they scream and feel horrific or muddled. The insides have a tendency to become the outsides and reflexive, primordial lines and colors remind me that the soul is an acceptable means of navigation. I’m eager to embrace the slop and and mortifying gaudiness of human experience, the pure intention of life, socialization, and the natural drive towards balance. I can see these properties unveil themselves in the glow of the human body, from birth to death, and all the spaces in between.
I was born in Flint, Michigan and now live in Chicago, IL.