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Artist
Statement
This work re-presents a mental landscape, or often, office-scape, used as a symbol or stand-in for contemporary culture at large. Stemming from an interest in the exploration of the psychology of the individual in contemporary culture as contrasted with the primitive psychology of man, this work offers a synthesis that highlights the latent tension between our former modus operandi and our current structured status. While this lifestyle transformation may be recognizable in the lives of the majority, I focus on a specific grouping of individuals, those living in a maximal built environment, the urban environment, cut off from the natural world. This new normal position removes the sights, sounds, scents and behaviors integral to life in the natural world and replaces it with a myriad of man-made objects and experiences centering around the idea of function or purpose in relation specifically to the human being. No longer residing in a subsistence-based communal setting where a reactionary attitude to our environment is part of our survival technique, we now plan for our survival in a construct based in politics and the economy.
Humor, absurdity, or dysphoria may be an element present in my work in it's often-times futile attempt to provide a response to the predicament of life in contemporary culture in the form of simulated nature or in works that reference primitive psychology. It is through this lens that my work investigates the tension between our past and out present modes of conduct.
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