The dominant theoretical concern of my work has been to document environmental issues in the complex balance and reciprocity found in our relationships interpersonally, with other species, and our fragile ecological resources. I see our sometimes hostile, interpersonal relatioships, and the consumption of our planet as not only calculated and selfishly pragmatic, but infused with and in our cultural paradigms, making the behaviors even more resistant to change.

In my work I have attempted to convey information to the viewer in a form that is visually engaging, and also confrontational, seducing the individual into this relation of facts, responsibilites, and consequences. In this I have been influenced by Donald Judd for his cool mathematical progressions and Joseph Kosuth for the intellectual generation evoked by his work. The two influences converge in content and physical presence within my work. I have also been influenced by Carl Sagan who fuses the exactness of science with the poetry of the imagination.

Another vein of my work is more introspective and personal. Specific in this body of work is love, passion, desire, and sex, represented subtly and explicitly. There is a significant amount of blurring from this body of work to the first. This blurring manifests itself with the appearance of astronomical, biological, and geological systems, numerology, and base elements.

By creating works that mimic natural processes, use systems, maps, and symbols, on which we rely to explain and understand, the sciences, our planet and the universe, I am alluding to the cyclical nature of time and change. Located in one corner of the installation “You Are Here” there is a mass of volcanic ash. The ash, for me, represents everything, it is everything that ever was, and everything that ever will be, it is the beginning and the end, containing all our yesterdays. The ash tells the story of history, and the unconceivable vastness of time which passed before we, as a species even entered the picture. It tells us where we are and is a metaphor for place, a perspective of humility from which I feel even more human.