Artist Statement
Every place has a history, a continuous lexicon of experiences and events archived in the landscape. History is merely representative of the past as it only constitutes recorded instants in time. In contrast, the past encompasses the totality of circumstances which go by unnoticed. Every occurrence does not leave an evidentiary trace, and just as some locations evolve and transform as time progresses, others erode and fade, leaving only memories filtered by a range of perspectives to account for the array of life that happened there. My investigative series explores the multiplicity of the 'unwatched life' by portraying history as a synthesis of the past and present, in which multiple vantage points of numerous incidents are juxtaposed in a single visual expanse.
The large scale drawings depict detailed environments overloaded with imagery embedded in the landscape. Multitudinous viewpoints are perceived as the viewer excavates the layers within the thematic montage of places, architecture, events and culture. The result is a multifaceted, ephemeral panorama that meanders through space, time and history.
The collages are comprised of a combination of printed images and found photographs seamlessly melded with pen, ink wash and transfer techniques. The images are compulsively superimposed, rendering dynamic scenes that traverse elements of the past, present and future.