Artist Statement

Like a child that crawls, walks, or simply stares while ingesting his or her everyday surroundings, my interest is similarly fueled by this effortless act of acknowledgment, observing the obscurities of daily occurrences.

Natural and undiluted, a young person’s attentiveness to a world within his or her reach diminishes in adulthood. In this mystery, I seek to tie the vulnerabilities, wonders, and doubts of a child, amidst the intricacies of an adult. As demonstrated in previous works, my current direction continues to explore themes, items and objects related to one’s everyday experience, reflecting on the moments and memories that can briefly recall a greatly nostalgic time… childhood. With the familiarities of common possessions, traces of the past and present are once again accessible, altering a brief instant into an extension of time.

My artwork involves the use of materials such as: caramelized sugar, dough, spices, intestinal casings, cement, tar and dirt with those of industrial and institutional products, creating three-dimensional wall reliefs’ and sculptures. I choose to incorporate multi-mediums that appear to be traditional in form, while remaining completely diversified in its conception, construction and combination of infrequent substances. Various materials are utilized, through either outside fabrication, personal manipulation or both.

While experiencing constant luxuries of all sorts, instant desires, text messaging and synchronized data sharing, we must also examine the costs of basic human interactions that is often overlooked and neglected. At a time and place where the world seems to exist virtually at a speed similar to light, it should equally be our concern to recall the simplicity through the eyes of a child, once again revealing reality’s hidden sensibilities.

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