My art and research focus on consciousness and memory's role in developing the illusory truth we tell ourselves about ourself: self and identity. Fields of black make us look for signals in the void. Grainy textures and overexposed lights appear to illuminate but the information fails to resolve. Glorious grids, abstract artifacts, and languishing lines compose scenes that feel familiar. Balancing representation and abstraction helps me communicate the researched knowledge versus the felt and intuited.

My work evokes the mysterious and ethereal; it embraces the inward voyage, reveals the recursive nature of consciousness, and delves into the unknown aspects of our understanding. Runaway recursive thoughts lead to unanswerable questions: Is consciousness an emergent property of our experience of time? Why do visceral, experiential memories overwhelm our minds at random moments? What happened to the me in that photograph, do they still exist?

My art questions the trueness of representation by making unclear how the work came into existence and whose lens depicted any particular self-portrait or landscape. I generate the images through a series of digital invocations that come from a potent mix of familiar tools (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, and Inkscape) augmented by my own esoteric collection of scripts, software, dev utilities, and individually trained neural nets. From their computer bit origins, the images find themselves in our fleshy atomic world through a series of physical interventions. In some cases, I project moving images onto semi-opaque movable plastic sheets. For others, the photographic prints turn into paintings by way of inkjet printing, spray paint, Sharpies, oil pastels, Acetone, Jasco brush cleaner, Alcohol, and a drawing machine to build up and erode pigment and the canvas.