Excerpts From Written Thesis:

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"What does it mean to translate a human experience in order to share with an audience/viewer? Art is a universal occurrence across cultures and continents... This aesthetic dimension of relationships is the network of communication that stretches into and between us and other. However, it seems as if even as much as love, connection, and community are deeply needed in living a human life, these are also consistently the spots where roots of trauma problematize the very things we seek. I make work referencing “the environment” because my relationship to, and even basic understanding of that thing called 'Place' has been put into question the deeper I dig into this particular type of search for meaning."

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"The large landscapes hover like an illusion. They formally begin with the question of essence and appearance. If a painting is an aesthetic-based metaphor then, as Timothy Morton points out with his metaphor = translation reminder, they are easily understood as a translation. They are a translation of experience. Which of course becomes its own kind of thing. The paintings are an ongoing investigation of making an ontological object in response to phenomenological trauma."

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