“artist statement”

My practice consists of painstaking, punishing, often combined processes of both drawing and printing, such as drafting, intaglio, woodcut, lithography, and automatic writing. these processes are used because of the amount of labour they entail. when a work has had enough labour poured into it, often something intangible happens to it- it becomes legitimized and real. it begins to inhabit the world in a different way.

this labour and repetition and stabs at legitimacy are reflections of my own personal efforts to achieve the same goal.

in terms of subject matter i tend to make abject the recognizable human form and instead rely on the results of human influence, or on anthropomorphizing what lives beside human beings. i am interested in the backdrop of all our activities, and in the detritus we leave behind in our pursuit for changing the world around us for our own needs. i am interested in how the ephemeral processes we have used worked to change the world in ways that we no longer deem efficient enough.

the repetition of old, painful, inefficient processes in service of legitimacy is the core of the work.

someone told me that when my work is all together it looks like that of two different artists. i think this is a criticism but i’m not sure.

(images last updated april 2026)

“Every Universal Force At Once Repeating In Chorus A Plan For Construction, Automatic”, graphite on vellum, 15’x45”. 2025.