Artist Statement

I work with painting, collage, and digital media to pair natural and digital aesthetics. I’m interested in representing the sense of the uncanny associated with new technology, where there is a sudden shift and the familiar becomes strange. Like the rise of AI-generated images or the proliferation of bots on the Internet, the differences between human and nonhuman sources often become less clear. I think the emotional space of the uncanny can help open up and reorient our understanding of the world as more alive, rather than fatigue us. I visually represent this kind of unsettling doubt by iterating images in a sequence in different media, suggesting my hand, but focusing on a sense of mutating repetition. Only a dense tangle of digital artifacts, paint, biomorphic shapes, and landscape remains. 

By creating moments for curiosity and disrupting expectations of immediate recognition of the natural or digital, intuitive connections between forms may start to appear for the viewer, allowing for the possibility of a novel form of vitality that is neither natural or digital, but along a continuum of life.