Raised in the American West, I am obsessed with the land that surrounds me and the environmental concerns tied up in the land. While the founding mythology of the American West is that of endless space, we now find that “remote” is within our reach, traffic and/or jetliners are always within earshot, and empty is filling up rapidly.
My artwork is extracted from the experience of travel -- not of a particular place, but from the velocity of travel itself, its visual bombardment, and its alteration of spatial perceptions. While traversing the urban landscape via car, bus, or train, this hyper-fluid viewpoint engages me. My obsession with my environs compels me to notationally sketch architecture, cars, trees, and urban clutter flowing by. In my drawings and paintings, I “collage” and invent a new scene and space -- accumulating and compressing miles of space and time into one image.
This process creates a dense layering of geography, reflecting the current condition of complexity, simultaneity and disjuncture in our lives and society. The resulting work contains ambiguous space and presence, as elements are captured in a state of flux and removed from their original context – dismantled and re-assembled.
As we break down traditional time/space barriers, the distance between ourselves and our natural origins ever-accelerates. As we reconfigure the land in ways to suit our ambitions, the environmental quandaries facing us are ever-accumulating.
