Above Image Credit: Daniel Nilsson, The Biennials of the Americas
Artist Bio.
I am an artist living and working in FT Collins, Colorado who graduated from Metropolitan State University in 2014. Having a passion for materials and understanding the value of these things has led me down an interdisciplinary path. I have always found that value is illusive and it's designation or status mark unattainable. It is through the pursuit of understanding these systems of desire that I find my work. The work begins and ends for me in a lived moment and as an artist I want to disseminate an embodied experience.
My training begins in sculpture and mixed media. I am a performance artist at heart and am currently pursuing a series of digital media works where I am collecting a new language written by anonymous authors, a privilege that is only provided by the unending bounty of the internet. I work within non-linear systems of mapping and discovering through the use of collected, discarded, found objects and images. Systems that cause items to be deemed important or to be cast aside as refuse.
My work lies within the semiotic systems of the rhizomatic where (as described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari) objects can fluctuate between moments of impotence and power. The rhizome theory works like a terrorist splinter cell here, as all of the objects and images contain a discarded language that carries with it a memory of understanding. In my work, the rhizome, allows for no origin or ending and creates a model of non-linear thought. My goal is to discover the systems behind acceptance and rejection using the Internet as a frame. In this way my work explores banal, rejected and the refused to understand why an item/image with a perceived function or purpose is deemed unworthy and what causes us to make this decision. It is through this exploration of collecting and editing that I bestow upon the discarded a pop icon, even... a cult like persona as if to signify it's final resting place within our subliminal existence.
My training begins in sculpture and mixed media. I am a performance artist at heart and am currently pursuing a series of digital media works where I am collecting a new language written by anonymous authors, a privilege that is only provided by the unending bounty of the internet. I work within non-linear systems of mapping and discovering through the use of collected, discarded, found objects and images. Systems that cause items to be deemed important or to be cast aside as refuse.
My work lies within the semiotic systems of the rhizomatic where (as described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari) objects can fluctuate between moments of impotence and power. The rhizome theory works like a terrorist splinter cell here, as all of the objects and images contain a discarded language that carries with it a memory of understanding. In my work, the rhizome, allows for no origin or ending and creates a model of non-linear thought. My goal is to discover the systems behind acceptance and rejection using the Internet as a frame. In this way my work explores banal, rejected and the refused to understand why an item/image with a perceived function or purpose is deemed unworthy and what causes us to make this decision. It is through this exploration of collecting and editing that I bestow upon the discarded a pop icon, even... a cult like persona as if to signify it's final resting place within our subliminal existence.