Tract (performance), 2005

There exist many dichotomies within my work: landscape and urbanscape, the natural and the artificial, the center and the periphery. I am interested in how representations of these categories have been interpreted and interrogated in Modern and contemporary art practices. Social and cultural alienation are some of the ramifications of contemporary existence. The physical location of one’s place serves to transform one’s identity. Exploring the underside of the North American vernacular by combining everyday life and theatricality, my work thus attempts to question the position of the viewer in relation to larger social and political ideologies.

Lamentation (installation view), 2004

Engulfed by the dense, vast city, I portray a scene that is consciously contrived—one that is by no means concerned with reproducing the outside world in an empirically accurate sense but rather one that exists within my own fantasy. Ambiguity is inherent throughout this new body of work where the self-referential can be read on a larger social context.