Statement

At my works' core is a concern for two mediums: time and energy. Since 2022, my pieces have generated media descriptions which are simple yet thorough, but which always end with the same two materials. Via the vocabulary of art display conventions, I call attention to these baseline, fundamental criteria for art production and viewing for the viewer, with the aim to highlight the complex underpinnings and infrastructures which are present in all art encounters. Overall, the inclusion of “time and energy” in descriptive language is meant to be an expansive gesture which alludes not only to time on a human scale, but also geological and astronomical time.

To elaborate, “time and energy” includes the exertion and duration spent making the work, the caloric consumption of the artist and the respective viewer, and the years that either party is spent alive in a terrestrial existence. But it alludes to a beyond as well: the terms include what is needed to create the electricity which flows through our urban infrastructure, and acknowledges the labor, lives, and material contexts required both during the works’ making, as well as the time of their storage and display. The energy of technology and infrastructure is produced by time: the upkeep of 21st century life requires the lifespans of petrochemicals which consist of long dead creatures, which have been transformed by geological pressure over millions of years, as well as the billions of years in which our planet and other astrological bodies operate.

The work intends to provoke human awareness of scales which are both much smaller and much larger than our terrestrial observation and human perception. The works aim to explode thoughts regarding scale toward a model which transcends scale… not a scalelessness, but a scalefullness.

Overall, my work is made from a position of deep cosmological questioning, an expanded view of consciousness, and unconventional views on what defines “life” on a fundamental level. Regardless of what the piece is ultimately interpreted as “being,” I am interested in how time and energy – as intertwined forces – compose not only the acts of art making, but existence itself.