My career is based in the graphic design
industry, specifically website
design. I love working
with people, images and text, and getting their site
to reflect their business, goals, etc. As an artist
my goals are somewhat different, I
create themes,
stories that tell not only about myself but touch
on our cultural conditions as well--various addictions,
institutional practices, and power struggles. I believe
I have discovered a niche for myself in the contemporary
art world by creating installation art and I hope
to continue representing societal discourse through
my artwork.
I have moved away from the viewer looking at my
work on just a computer monitor and moved into installation
art practices where more than one person can interact
with the piece at the same time, but I still use
the computer, as a tool, to enhance my environments.
I also enjoy photography, collage, and digital collage
work. Photography gets me out into this world of
ours; collage does the same thing, because I have
to go out and gather unique/interesting objects.
When I am creating digital collage I use appropriated
images, scanned images of collected objects, and
my own photography, and text.
As I look back at my fairly brief
experience at creating art I have come to realize
that all of my art has been based on identity,
story telling, in essence my "becoming"--an
artist, a designer, a student of life. What I love
most about creating art is getting charged-up about
an idea/concept, translating experience into imagery,
when the work comes together as a whole and portrays
what I am trying to say, and especially if it makes
a social impact on the viewer.