Artist's Statement
To create or make art at first glance seems like a natural thing. Yet, if by our nature we do not want to draw attention to ourselves, making art is truly unnatural. In addition, if one wants to have an honest dialogue with the viewer, one has to drop all cares away. One's work reflects who one is or it is a lie and a lie is often simply easier.
In my work, I can not help myself. It is like talking to oneself while others listen in. It is compelling to listen in but there is also that discomfort because there is a sense that these are not public conversations. They are confessions. I do feel like a fool at times as I search for love through materials or a narrative. It is such an antiquated way to think or perhaps just naively quaint.
Like someone with obsessive compulsive disorder, I have the same conversation over and over again. It never gets old but it does become exhausting at times. Others might think that the work is about love, sex and desire but it is probably (also) about intrigue. The question that I would ask you is whether it is possible to create enough intrigue even in the simplest drawing to hold one attention and haunt? Great art should haunt one like an unrequited love because they are one and the same.