The reciprocal relationships that sustain and destroy life inspire my work. I am concerned with the functioning of life and the competition between all things; interactions that reveal progress, but also uncover anxieties of destruction and failure. Manifested in unsettling narratives beneath accessible compositions, my work imagines the disappearance of mankind and the destruction of human constructed spaces. As inhabitants of urban contemporary society, we have become dependent on a digital and concrete world. This dependency has imprisoned us in a constructed reality that has tamed our once wild instincts. Society underestimates the power of nature; a power that has the ability of calm the spirit, but destroy the physical. The threat that nature forces upon us reveals our insignificance and yet, we continue to risk our existence in our attempts to be known. The world will always push back. How would we respond to the thought of nature engulfing our existence?
Exploring content embedded in architecture, biology, atmospheric conditions and geology provides the viewer with an objective and logical awareness about the world. The demand for this awareness influences my mission to employ cause and effect. While early imagery illustrates the infinite complexity of the world by referencing elements of flora, fauna and man, current imagery engages the viewer via entry into an unconceivable landscape; a landscape which allows the viewer to confront anxiety and consequently receive psychological healing. The wilderness effect describes a heightened self-awareness in a natural space. This theory is also supported by that which suggests that contemporary architecture and urban spaces merely simulates central vision while nature encompasses peripheral vision (the totality of our senses). Making a connection with the natural world is thus vital to our physical and mental survival.
Complex compositions and active tensions between the organic and the structural properties of urban spaces and nature create interactions that are both threatening and playful; that which beauty and intrigue coexist among danger and rage. Saturated compositions illustrate hostile narratives that are strangely imaginative. Architectural elements become personifications of human presence fighting for survival and the maintenance of their precious forms in a distorted and menacing landscape. The work embodies a hybridization that abstractly magnifies and retains visual realism allowing the viewer to understand space, modify it, and create a personal entry. I intend to confront the viewer with glimpses into a dark and plausible future; that which becomes accessible because of its rendering. Envision a city, a civilization, an organism; its destruction, absence. Envision the power of nature, growth of an organism; life.