Reflections
Short essays and studio reflections on perception, representation, architecture, photography, and the systems through which we construct meaning. These texts are not explanations of the work so much as notes from an ongoing investigation.
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Models of Reality
We often assume that perception gives us direct access to the world. Yet what we experience is shaped by the brain’s attempt to organize incomplete and ambiguous sensory information into a coherent model of reality. Because this process is remarkably successful, the model becomes invisible. We mistake interpretation for the thing itself. A photograph seems…
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Seeing Slowly
Most images today are designed for immediate recognition. My work attempts the opposite. By layering incompatible systems of representation, it slows perception and resists instant comprehension. The goal is not confusion but attentiveness, to create a moment in which viewers become aware of the process of seeing rather than simply the object being seen. Contemporary…
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Architecture and Perception
Architecture begins with an attempt to understand how people make sense of their environment. It then gives physical form to that understanding. Buildings do more than occupy space; they embody assumptions about movement, hierarchy, and meaning. My work borrows the language of architecture not to depict buildings, but to explore the human impulse to organize…
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Clouds
Clouds are ideal subjects because they resist stable interpretation. They have no fixed boundaries, no permanent form, and no obvious scale. We constantly search for patterns within them, projecting order onto ambiguity. Their instability allows them to become a testing ground for questions about perception, representation, and the desire to construct meaning. Unlike most objects,…
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Perception and Consciousness
In my work, I’m interested in how perception works. I like to complicate the act of looking so that you might be able to see the process of seeing. Once you dive into how perception works, you run into the logical question: what is doing the perceiving? What is the nature of the conscious mind?…
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Open
Open to interpretaion. Open-ended. Open minded. Open to change. Like the shifting clouds and waves that this work depicts, I intend for the meaning of these works to remain open. They don’t resolve to a specific meaning. Don’t look for a single symbolic meaning, but let them oscillate between various interpretaions.
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Where to Start?
My recent work is based on extensive observations of clouds and waves. Rather than a literal depiction of these phenomena, the artwork represents the experience of sustained attention interwoven with a free-associative state of mind that is induced when you look at nature very carefully. Contradictory geometries materialize and dissipate, while fragments of memory intermingle…
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Hallucination
It’s an innate compulsion. You can’t stop interpreting. There’s a racoon over in that corner. No, it’s a dog. No, it’s a broken flowerpot. Up close, it’s definitely a broken flowerpot. Your mind projects ideas until it finds the best fit. There’s a flash of vertigo when one hallucination is swapped out for another.
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Time Traveller
Clouds are very useful for time travel. Wander through childhood rooms; meet old friends. You go wherever and do whatever you want. It’s a mystery. What is it about clouds that sets you free to float through time and space? “Steer Your Way” is another complex journey through the clouds. Dashed and dotted lines suggest…