Statement

I now make prints of stains and mold and insects. It is my response to impermanence, my own, and all other sentient beings, as well as our delicately balanced environment.

I grow mold in coffee dregs and use the complexity of microscopic formation as the basis for my prints.

Once I find a patch of information that’s suitable, I elaborate and cobble together this information into a field of activity on the computer and compile a multi-gigabyte digital file. This file is printed as floor to ceiling inkjet print. 

Once printed, my work begins anew.

I am reluctant to have these floor to ceiling prints be seen as pictorial objects, isolated on the wall and consumable as art objects. To circumvent this reading, I pair each print with another print and continue to partner them until they imply walls of wallpaper or rolls of bacteria.

Additionally, these prints are accompanied by insects that themselves are reminders of our transience. They are specimens of common species that exist in our everyday world and they are printed on acetate and folded. They look quite real. Most people have a startled reaction to seeing them. Their intention is to cause a break in the fantasy brought on by the aesthetics of the prints. 

Buddhists train all their lives to awaken to the reality before their eyes. 

 It is said that "The gasp that we utter during a moment of shock or awe is a moment we free ourselves of delusion".

May 2023