Artist Statement
Although I am, at present, a multimedia artist working concurrently in music, performance, and video, my formal training is in printmaking, the tradition of creating multiple works on paper using semi-arcane processes like woodcut, etching and silkscreen. I still have a strong affinity for producing works on paper and from time to time I create new work in this vein.
A visual artist in attendance at one of my musical performances once remarked that my sound-generating process was like "drawing in time." Indeed, my drawing and musical processes are parallel and closely linked. My works on paper are informed by the same interest in myth, ritual, and the mediating function of consciousness on subjective experience that fuels my performative work. Materially, the drawings tend to incorporate both finely deconstructed collage elements from both self-generated and found sources into mosaic-like images that show the influence of sacred geometry, feedback loops, visionary and folk art, and medieval manuscript paintings.
The process of breaking down and reassembling holds psychological and mystical significance for me, as does the meditative process of creating emergent patterns from disparate colors and textures.