Alabama Invitational 2023 – Exhibiting Artist
A child sitting in a cardboard spaceship zooms past the stars.
A woman sits on a church pew, in her Sunday best, sound in her faith while a couple sitting in a jam-packed football stadium are jubilant in theirs.
Edward Hopper allows us to ride a half empty train or enjoy a late-night meal at a diner.
A teenager sits in the driver seat for the first time as Mom or Dad teaches them how to drive.
Friends sit in camp chairs staring into a dancing fire, far away from their daily routine.
The work I create comes from a fascination with the transformative power of the places where we reside and the memories and imagination they elicit. Spectatorship, transportation, nostalgia, generative design and the anthropomorphic object are themes driving my studio practice.
As I create work, I imagine: what would it be like to be there? or reminisce on what it was like when I was there, hoping the viewer might do the same.
