In this video, as in my work in general, I play with images and concepts of power, sexuality, and identity. My work is an effort to stand outside the traditional boundaries of gender and family to create visual experiences which empower through self-definition, personal narrative, and re-imagining the worlds within. I use the figure as an anchor to re-channel emotion, to illustrate internal conflict, and to connect the viewer viscerally with changing experiential states.
I hope to construct a kind of springboard for personal mythology, embracing an internal struggle often set in or represented by abandoned or decomposing environments. This embodied collection of emotional memory lives somewhere between the figurative, the symbolist, and the surreal, and reflects influences such as Sally Mann, Bill Viola, and Robert Parke Harrison. The images are a catalogue of states, feelings, and histories skeptical of all personal and societal meta-narratives, even themselves.