My picture making is an ongoing narrative of personal contexts and experiences. I'm interested in working non-linearly and using a variety of 'style' in my visual vocabulary. I work in small series, telling short stories through each body of work.
I have submitted two ongoing bodies of work: "Views on Views" and "Twins on Twins". With both projects, I negotiate my ideas through presenting images with a forced duality - an intervention or interference of the base image.
"Views on Views" derives from my interest in personal narrative. It examines the complexities of personal experience and provokes the notion of objectivity. Example: A landscape exists in reality. An individual experiences it through looking and perceiving. Yet no matter how hard one looks, the subject of their gaze can never be understood in its' true or original state as the individual will see the subject through personal filters dependent on their own histories, methods of interpretation, emotional/psychological states, etc., etc. This work illuminates the intricacies of personal experience and challenges notions of reality and/or truths.
In "Twins on Twins" I re-visit my exploration of my identity of being a twin. Through images in a book titled 'Twins on Twins', I intervene on the pre-existing imagery through covering up, scratching into, painting, and drawing on top of the given portraits. These intuitively led sessions of image interventions serve to represent an idea of duality in identity. Through the transformation of these images, I further investigate ideas of identity and individuality. This highly personal work is made accessible through the use of found imagery. My twin and I have collaborated on works that examined our twinship in the past. This is my first solo examination since 2008.
These two projects work in dialogue with one another: while "Twins on Twins" plainly presents a personal narrative, "Views on Views" contemplates the nature of personal narrative/experience itself.
