The primary subject of my work is the body (human or otherwise) as a vehicle for the exploration of themes constant to the universal human condition.  These include, but are not limited to issues surrounding birth, death, aging, illness, trauma, and sexuality.  I utilize a high degree of realism in my expression of scenarios that exaggerate and amplify the afore stated issues while relying on surrealistic imagery to create visual metaphors for both physical and psychological experience. My work is confrontational by nature.  Manipulating the viewers subliminal schadenfreude, my sculpture is simultaneously repellant and engaging.

 

Through the process of fastidiously modeling every detail of my subject matter, I form an intimacy with my work that is transmitted to the viewer.  In pursuit of an understanding of what we find appealing and why, one may arrive at a sort of objectivity through which beauty and revelation can be found in the least likely places.  As such, I approach my work as scientific exploration in which each experiment leads to the next in an ongoing examination of the human condition.