The traditional, multidisciplinary and trans-media work within the individual portfolios seen, push boundaries and blur the line between medium, process and product. A visual language is born by tying the chosen sources together, that of which draw life from each other and orbit around the same concept, creating work that draws questions of existence, mortality, consciousness and memory, while capturing the tense friction between perceived reality and abstraction. The various bodies of work also stem from the human inclination to interpret aspects of our life, in which the manifestations are the distorted remnants of memory and the fabrication of thoughts. A large amount of the work incorporates figures submerged in water and other surfaces, in which the explorations chosen have captured worlds where the elements and figures are paused in time, reflecting back into an altered state of consciousness, which acts as a vehicle into the sources of poetic vision. Fundamental principles of form and design are combined with a delicacy of expression and symbolic representation. Heavy social examinations and historical references are also unveiled within each piece, especially the work that taps into the darker, dualistic and interrelated facets of our selves in the most primitive nature. These images combine states of meditative self-consciousness with exoticism and decadence. A diverse amount of the work also possesses an air of otherworldliness, of imaginative realms whence the waters of creativity and sensuality spring from the same well. Everything is made up of energy that vibrates, even our own cells, and the various projects encompass this vibrating energy that manifests itself through an auditory and visual language. Language in and of itself is a vibration; oscillations occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.

 

 


 

 

 

 


Submerged Awakenings, archival ink on photo rag paper
, 24"x18"

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