“Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.“
~ Robert Adams
OF MYTHS AND DREAMS
The body- without adornment, enveloped by light. The most perfect expressive modality. Universally resonant. Unequivocally evocative. Inherently ambiguous.
As an image-maker, I am endlessly captivated by the body’s power to move the viewer beyond the expected, the comfortable. I endeavor, in my images, to chart the boundaries between the body as phenomenon and the body as metaphor. It is at this boundary that the viewer encounters the ambivalence and dislocation of social values, the personal confusion of unresolved identity, and the innate discomfiture in shame-based cultural norms.
But it is equally important to invoke a dialogue with the history of figurative art- not merely as pastiche, but as aesthetic exploration. Much of this work derives from a recent period of intense research into the iconology of Botticelli’s paintings. Through being immersed in the art of this period, I found myself reevaluating my approach to the human form. I have endeavored to explore various permutations of representing the body as expression, rather than as subject.