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STATEMENT

The things I make are concerned with cluelessness and understanding, happiness and unhappiness, and success and failure. Everything seems to be tinted by melodrama.

I work mostly in drawing and assemblage, aided by occasional elementary wood constructions. The things I make are pretty self-explanatory and self-contained. They always look kind of silly and awkward. I mostly use playful, colorful images that recall childhood. This tactic creates a light, optimistic appearance that lures the viewer deeper into the work where they are then confronted with a morbid apathy that subverts their initial impression. This apathy is communicated through detail, text, titles, and overwhelming amounts of quickly absorbed information. This structure of playful appearance with scathing details suits my exploration of the dynamics between opposing forces like happiness and unhappiness and their constant presence in our lives.

Some artists that I like are: Frances Stark, Sarah Sze, Jimmie Durham, Matthew Brannon, David Shrigley, Mika Rottenberg, Kristin Stoltmann, and Richard Tuttle. Elizabeth Peyton and Miranda July are ok too.