materials:   drawings on vellum and printer paper

The shape was created out of intuition that I later learned was probably my connection to the collective unconscious. It was drawn as the map of a place where my 16-yr-old fantasy narrative could take place, which I later learned was the prototypical hero’s journey. The fantasy narrative was a myth which was inspired by the events in my young life. The map was drawn based on the events of the myth with the notion that place and idea could be connected in a symbolic way. That is to say, if a person will one day walk away from society to look out at the vast ocean and have wanderlust, then there should be a place for them to do so, which then directly leads them to the next place as well, and so on. This was and often still is a heavy and complicated thought, because I do not propose to predict the future and yet I feel so connected to this shape as it has proved itself time and again. Over time I have re-interpreted the shape, transposed various ideas on it (which fundamentally abide by similar rules or purposefully do not), and analyzed it objectively to make more purely visual connections. At times it is the subject of my work. Sometimes the work is derived from it as it expresses parts of an actual or imagined diagram or the whole thing. Yet still other times it is just a jumping off point for me to say this is something I feel that is valuable. This is myself.

materials:   debossing on cardstock, paint, wood, inkjet prints on paper, copyshop prints

A collection of works that continue to draw from the 1994 fatal crash of F1 driver Ayrton Senna. The car he drove at the time was the Williams Renault FW16. Inspired by the visual world created by this wreck, I continue to extract works by examining ideas such as bridging the gap between the reality of death and the superficiality of the corporate sponsored racing livery; creating a structure with material (paper) that reaches beyond its limits to collapse in on itself naturally; superimposing the shape (see project MODEL DIAGRAMS) I have brought over from my concept mapping, onto the shape of the car itself and creating a dichotomy of life as it is a meaningful, mythical and often symbolic journey and the fragility once again of a material (paper) as a stand-in for the body or a car.

materials:   rock salt, table salt, foam, plastic, balloons, nylon string, cinder block, PVC, cotton, nylon rope, steel, newspaper, packing tape, Plexiglas, velvet, tartan wool, drawings on vellum and paper 

This installation is a physical representation of the video VISION QUEST LUNDI: BALTIMORE. It was installed at Open Space Baltimore. This installation incorporates visual components of the video to encapsulate both the narrative and its underlying concepts. Around the perimeter of the gallery are diagrams transposing various imagery and ideas onto a multi-layered shape on architectural vellum. One of the layers (or stages) of the shape is reflected in the footprint of the sculptural pieces, delineated by salt, ice rink walls, and balloons and split down the middle with pennants.