> DESCRIPTION
"I have been trying to explore and describe the limbos between
fantasy, perception, dreams, memory, and imagination. Steadily, I’ve
created and collected a mountain of paper - garbage and photocopies,
drawings of distorted people, places and animals, real and imaginary,
covered in stains, wrinkles and writing. The resultant books and
installations are created though a combination of careful editing and
intuitive connections. These pages, intimate and overwhelmingly
physical, range in scale from business cards to murals. They are both
individual pieces unto themselves and material for artist books, zines,
and dense installation environments. My approach is a blend of
intention and chance that employs life drawing, drawing from found
sources, as well as imagination. I vary my techniques frequently while
maintaining monochromatic constraints.There is no clear seam where the
creative process begins or ends.
Though the content of my art varies enormously, much of it has been
a depiction of my romance with the temperate British Columbian
rainforests I grew up around - dense, green, and crawling with banana
slugs. I love dinosaurs because they are completely real and imaginary
- they are monsters for real. I make a defense of suspended disbelief,
playfulness, and unleashed, raw imagination.Other themes in my work
emerge from the blending of politics with the hyper-personal. My
writing (often incorporated with the drawing) is particularly rife with
sexual awkwardness, spiritual uncertainty, and an attention to human
relationships with environments and Mother Nature. I am particularly
interested in farm animals, extinct animals, endangered animals,
primates, insects, amphibians, and bizarre animals. My work draws
parallels between species, and begs the question of the value of our
supposed differences. I want to inspire a discomfort with
anthropocentric views of ‘god-given’ superiority, and encourage viewers
to imagine the inevitably lonesome future that awaits our species with
our carrying on with fundamentalism, war, and ecocide."
A portion of all sales go to protecting oceans and the behemoths of the deep.