I take metaphors from literary sources, and use them to form visual comparisons and connections with current ideas, attitudes and concerns. I seek out images that are provocative, disturbing and conflicting, and I break them down in order to re-contextualize them, often to garner an alternative meaning or reaction. My goal is to subvert the intent of the original image and provoke a counter response.

I view my entire process as drawing. My images originate as sketches and photographs that have undergone a complex process of dissection and distortion. This transformative process is continual as the drawing is translated across various media platforms. At various stages, mutations occur and these accidents lead to new ideas and interpretations. The drawings are scanned, digitally manipulated, printed, photocopied, cut up, collaged, traced, scanned, further manipulated, printed, overlaid, redrawn, and eventually transferred to canvas by hand and painted The end result is often a complex spatial matrix that may exist on its own or be combined with, and superimposed upon, other matrices that have also undergone similar processes of manipulation.

I do this because I'm interested in the evolutionary processes through which all systems of information must undergo. The potential of human understanding expands with each technological development. As new ideas emerge, old ideas and beliefs are drawn into question. Access to information has grown at an exponential rate, and this increase has ushered in an era of conflict and change. There is an overwhelming sea of information, and it has become increasingly difficult to process. The end result is that many sectors of our society have grown resistant. Many social institutions feel threatened because any amount of change challenges the very power structures upon which they are founded. And herein lies the paradox; the very inquisitiveness of the human mind, that has ensured our species survival and evolution, may very well become the driving force of our extinction.