Artist Statement

My recent work presents a series of investigations into the unreliable film of memory and an awkward state of quasi-adolescence.  It is vaguely autobiographical and partly invented history.  I have come to realize that my memories of youth are so under-the-influence of peer mythology and popular culture that it is impossible to unravel them.  They are projections of a kind of childhood of the collective unconscious.  My work attempts a mytho-psychological space –the puerile need for reckless heroics and alter ego.

The kid reaches a transcendental nexus in the act of play, an almost god-like sense of purpose, a simultaneous state of heightened consciousness and perfect oblivion.  It's almost as if he has stepped out of the stream of time and ceased to be a mere mortal altogether.  There is something both heroic and futile in the Houdini-like attempt to escape the bounds of reality.  Everyday occurrences take on epic proportions.