a provisional statement

My practice centers on notions of closeness, genuineness, vulnerability, intimacy, and my confusion as I wrestle with what these things mean in my personal life.  Examining my own personal experiences, I often employ rigorous ongoing routines and exercises to document and archive my relationships with the people, objects, and spaces with which I interact.

Repetition, ritual, and endurance on a daily scale form the basis of my practice, and are used as a way to blur art with my normal routines and experiences.



I attempt to preserve moments in my relationships and





        My projects each have a very practical utility for me, and are born out of personal dilemmas, opportunities, or situations.  I turn to an art practice in order to explore, solve, and



    social freedoms





     Repetition, ritual, and endurance on a daily scale form the basis of my practice, and are used as a way to blur art with my normal routines and experiences.
     My practice relies heavily on documentation, and the viewer of my work often sees artifacts, evidence, or other residue left over from actions taken in my personal life.  Constantly documenting and building archives, I become a sort of anthropologist and collector of my own life and experiences, and eventually present parts of these documents.  The tension of how much to show is very present in my practice, and I am constantly torn between wanting to be vulnerable or exposed, and wanting to maintain privacy.
     By obsessively incorporating my art practice into my daily life, and inversely using my life as the content of my work, it opens up the possibility for constant creation.  Whether proving my humanness 

my work is either an attempt to create a new sort of interaction or a document of an interaction that has already occurred.
Contextualizing a relational action within this institution grants me freedom to

  My interest in fusing art and life comes from an investigation into the genuineness of art as it relates to relationships. 



      I am drawn to intersections between the bedroom and museu



                             I hoard text messages that make me feel good, until my inbox is full.  I then delete them a few at a time to make room for new messages.   ---



  How close is close?

  I explore the politics of intimacy and relationships: the boundaries and containers that mediate our interaction, including communication, memory, space, technology, and the art institution itself. Through personal activities and sentiments resulting in private artifacts or documents, I experiment with the intersections of private and public, vulnerable and guarded, level-headed and emotional. Thus, I elucidate the complexities of my relationships with people in my life, the viewer of my work, and the art objects themselves. As I discover the limits, functions, and mechanics of these boundaries in our relationships, I blur or break them, creating and embracing interaction that would usually be deemed inappropriate.

  As part of a culture engrossed with publicizing life’s personal details, I begin my process by focusing on personal incidents, interactions, or anxieties, and then attempt to somehow reconcile or deal with these experiences. By documenting this process and offering the viewer access to these documents I hope to initiate some form of relationship with them. I mean you.

  Constantly submerged in digital technologies, I become obsessively interested in physical personal spaces like beds and bedrooms, and by institutionalizing them I paradoxically make them virtual and intangible as well.


Because I blur my art and life, often turning parts of my life into projects and letting projects become part of my everyday, I don’t really have a “day in the studio.” My studio is technically my bedroom, but I’m really making work all day as I go. I wake up, photograph my bed, and rush out the door to something I’m running late for, usually with a mouthful of Listerine and a handful of carrots or pistachios or something. I spend time with people and document that. I spend time alone and I document that. Computers and other machines are often involved in these times alone, and times with people. Throughout the day I draw, paint, edit photos, etc., and I end the day with making a drawing as I fall asleep.



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