I take objects out of their vernacular contexts and rework them, sometimes in

incongruous materials, or by fragmentation, in shifts of scale or in recombination with

disparate elements. By shifting points of reference I activate the viewer to approach

subjects through alternative modes of knowing. My aim is to probe deeply into basic

assumptions, to explore meanings and to expose the nature of truth. Nietzsche said that

truth consists of all perspectives and Godel proved mathematically that there are always

truths within truths that remain unprovable. I revel in these ambiguities. At the same

time, I hunger for assurance, for order, familiarity, definition, and consistency. My work

becomes a dialogue between the two and lies somewhere between the sweetness of

decoration and the bitterness of satire. It springs from the surrealist past and the eclectic

materiality of the recent postmodern. It is a playful dialogue between the everyday given

and the absurd that lurks behind it.

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