Artist Statement
My visual and theoretical research investigates the correspondences between spirituality, science, culture, and myth focused on vibration, the spirit, and transcendence as dialogical concepts between these fields. Through printmaking, I attempt to make substance of something that in its essence is transient, fleeting, or intangible, through amorphous figures that resemble the microcosm and macrocosm simultaneously. I’m currently experimenting with imagery pertaining to nature, using it as the starting point of unity between the concepts researched.
A matrix is akin to Plato's realm of Ideas, and the printed image shadows inside the cave, the print is only a reflection, a veil to the concepts and original images behind it. By abstracting images from the natural world, I seek to create visual associations that express how our universe is connected in unexpected ways, reflecting on the Hermetic concept of - As above, so below-. For this reason, I am currently predominantly working in intaglio printmaking as a means of thinking through an image in various steps, in which each mark made takes the image away from its source and links it with another.
In a world full of individualism it is essential that humans expand their sense of self into a connected world. If we acknowledge the interconnection of all things we might just achieve harmony with the world we inhabit and with one another.