Artist Statement
I like people to come into my apartment and have a dozen peculiar things for them to see and wonder about in each room, and this drives my art-making. I mostly work in the second dimension with a combination of acrylic, pen-and-ink, pencil, and marker, but have grown to find great fun with three-dimensional works using paper and cardboard and wire. I like work that is busy, full of odd characters and objects and symbols that can provide endless opportunity to seek-and-find — a Where’s Waldo? for potential meaning. I sometimes like my art to be funny, or more often to play with what we associate with funny, like cartoons. I like to play with cheap materials because I believe it ought not take great piggy banks to make great paintings of piggies. I believe doodles are worthy of display. Much of my design-process art is improvisational, playing with images from my dreams, or whatever I think of adding in that given moment. The end result is something that hopefully starts a conversation, even if it’s just in my living room.
