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Utilizing drawing, sculpture, & video animation under an acutely conceptual framework, a minimalist aesthetic is combined with both highly personal subject matter & fanatical seriality. An obsessive language of materials & techniques has been developed based on my late surgeon father’s methods both in medicine & in domestic life. By translating these both foreign & familiar processes into artistic practice a form of apprenticeship lives on in a commemoration. Drawing behaves as an obsessive & repetitive act employed for the exploration of memory & the reclaiming of something familiar. Thematically the work seeks empathy across all identity lines.

The sculptural works too function as drawings, but in three dimensional space, meticulously coating objects with graphite pencil as if they removed themselves from the two dimensional plane & into our bodily space providing an ever greater intimacy & physicality with the object itself.

Many of the drawings are further used to create animation works, “purposely failed animations”, or “moving stills”—never successfully animating the inanimate subject sourced from the motionless world of photography or the even more metaphorically static realm of memory.

All my methods maintain a peculiar sense of longing. The subject matter may directly address this, a formal sensibility of tension may be employed or longing can be implied by way of a self-imposed conceptual failure—often having a purposeful yet ambiguous sense of incompletion.