In my most recent work I
explore a spectrum of visual metaphors for veils. A veil is a division between
two separate, often disparate, worlds. It is a covering that often culturally
implies an eventual or possible breach. In the Judeo-Christian tradition veils
separate the physical and metaphysical worlds. It is through the breach of that
veil that spiritual and transcendent experience is had. The veil then implies
the location where the physical and spiritual worlds interact and commingle.
In my work I investigate
these ideas formally, thematically, and conceptually. My imagery is derived
from a variety of sources such as life, memory/imagination, video, old black
and white family photographs. While the imagery is often varied, the work is
unified by a conceptual origin, the veil. I seek imagery that conceptually or
literally implies two disparate realities and I use it to probe where and how they
interact. I try to imply a veil breached by collapsing polarities both
thematically (as in the play between nature and the man-made world) and
formally (as found in the condensed tonal and chromatic scales of some works).
Much of my work begins from a biographical narrative and attempts to distill
that imagery into a rhetorical and emblematic form.