CV Artist's Statement Artist's Statement My primary interest is to create "live" works of art in public spaces for massive consumption. Secondarily, I create commissions for residential and commercial spaces. My idea of art is that it should have a home and should be viewed by the widest possible audience. My artistic expression is inextricable from my experience and knowledge as a designer. Without design, I would not have the experience with computer rendered art, which is key to my work. In all of my work, I strive for an optimal production: a minimal amount of production, a maximum of time on concept, and a large impact as a result. With a fascination with visual transformations, patterning and the process of visual perception-including its translation into meaning and its psychological effects-I create digital videos, large-scale digital drawings and bronze sculptures. In creating the videos, I begin with digitally shot live action footage of repetitive motion found in nature and urban environments, in which movement takes place within a still frame: essentially a moving photograph. I also work with digital photographs and animate them to create hypnotic patterns to transport the viewer to another plane. When creating drawings, I act as a "courtroom stenographer" or conduit, recording iconography, spoken phrases from television, my memory and imagery from nature. Elements are both synthesized and exaggerated in a stream of consciousness fashion to create an imaginary landscape. Bronze sculptures begin as scraps of metal found on streets. This garbage, which has no "value", is transformed into abstract characters referred to as "Born Again Road Kill". These pieces from cars and other mechanical objects must be exposed to the elements for some period of time. Pieces are then composed into characters, cast individually in bronze, then soldered into life. They show how humans replicate themselves, even in the smallest, insignificant components of machines and oscilate between being recognized as visually insignificant, mechanical parts and their final composite state as imaginary characters. Viewers have been seen transfixed in front of the videos, which can induce a "high" like feeling with their hypnotic colors and motion. And viewers of the digital prints become engaged as they try to perceive the source imagery in a "Where's Waldo"-like experience. Most viewers instinctively connect with one of the "Born Again Road Kill" sculptures as they relate to their character.