By appropriating the sterile language of instruction manuals and using it to convey the human character, I aim to make images that are unexpected without being esoteric. With my work I explore such themes as desire, and the modern individual’s struggle to connect with others. By depicting this internal world, my intention is to relate with viewers on a personal level. To make the material more approachable, I place the subject matter in absurd contexts, and use color to offset the conceptual tone of a piece.
I tend to use unidentifiable figures to communicate collective experiences, and public figures to express the more uncommon. I portray the latter in a way that reveals a quality about themselves or their work which has foremost caught my attention. These pieces are then meant to embody their original counterparts (as I have interpreted them to be)--functioning as a surrogate to their physical absence in the majority of our private lives--while imparting a unique idea that has been based upon them. With these and all my works, I endeavor to make the complex or abstract consumable in a simple, and tangible form.