My work is about reveling in the ambiguities that exist between dichotomies. I strive to find the connections and similarities between those things that are typically thought of as being entirely different. Beauty/vulgarity, humor/tragedy, male/female, and beginning/end are all examples of polarized binaries that my work is aimed at blending and discombobulating.
By placing one side of the polarity on top of the other I create works with multilayer narratives and complex compositions. Through a combination of vagueness and detail the seemingly simple and discrete mechanism of beauty, humor, and decadent surface can be used as a conduit from which a far larger and more difficult sub-layer of content can begin to emerge. The root of this secondary content that bleeds through is the entirely unknowable and vulnerable nature of the human experience, a topic so wide and dark that it cannot be addressed head on. It can only be hinted at through a balancing act of subterfuge and poignancy that invites the viewer in, but then makes them decide where to go next. It is a reminder that life is complicated and very little of it can be explained through logic. In the end we must embrace our ambiguities or face being destroyed by them.