Memory of Spaces

photographic space

I am very interested in photographic spaces... that is, spaces that can be captured and recorded as imagery. I often play around with digital photographs in my process... in drawing and etching. I often stage imagery through a series of performative actions. I use my camera to record specific moments of time throughout a performed action. I think of these captured images as archives of identity... existence within a period of time and space which goes beyond what is perceivable.
... I often use myself as subject matter as it is convenient.

ipod sketches

the following observational sketches were done on my ipod touch using the free app, "live sketch".

new work, new blog

As an artist I am interested in so many things, some of which are spaces we live in, work in, and socialize in. I am also interested in what makes all of us do what we do. I ask the questions, "why do we act a certain way in public/private?," "how are these actions governed?," "what makes some of us do things which are different?," "what greater meaning comes from this difference?" I guess I feel as though there is a certain degree of performance which occurs that makes us all do what we do, as well as other factors. I often find myself wondering how we perform in spaces that are nondigital [analog] versus how we perform in spaces that are digital. It is an interesting divide.

Using a blog, is a studio tool I use. It helps me to become distanced from my work... to digest it in different ways. I will be using this blog in that way...as a digital studio journal.