artist statement

My current body of work explores the longing and anxiety of connection. Networked systems of wires define the physical and psychological space through which we reach out to each other, reflecting and defining the essence of that connection. The wires themselves cut into the landscape and stand against the sky in snarls — suggesting isolation, desire, anxiety — the accidental patterns created are both the means of connection and the psychic reflection of it.

As in the language of a recollected dream, where objects are less visible but better understood, these ubiquitous tangles negotiate chaos and design, the organic and the mechanical. The tension in this uneasy marriage mimics the paradox between our need for intimacy and the indifferent mechanisms for transmittal. No matter the word spoken into the phone, the wires that carry the message send their own message – distance, space, technology, abstraction. The means becomes the meaning.