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Private Universe Statement
I am giving another life to disposable materials, using items that are normally thrown away and become part of our landscape. In the Private Universe series I have transformed scraps of bubble wrap, creating an altered reality for them by applying layers of material from nature to create individual landscapes that blend the natural and the synthetic. Certain bubbles are selected and scanned creating scanograms, which are then digitally printed, giving a macro view of the landscapes. This series continues the recurring themes of illusion, dreamscapes and fictional worlds in my work. Like landscapes we see in our daily lives, I am fusing organic and manmade materials to create otherworldly images that are somehow familiar and at the same time shroud their true origins. Litter goes unnoticed as part of the landscape. These images show rubbish becoming the landscape, foretelling of a future world where finding the organic among manmade consumable items becomes difficult. These alternate perspectives also document the evolution and degradation of the materials used as they persist long after the materials are forgotten.
Identity Landscapes Statement
In many aspects of society we have become just a number, to the telephone company we are recognized as an account number and to the United State’s government individuals are a social security number. Institutions are driven to numbering us purely for efficiency and financial reasons, which lead me to think about the way society revolves around money, in the literal sense, being the heart of society. Following this train of thought, I made sculptural reliefs out of shredded documents such as pay stubs, bank statements, and credit card applications. I shredded these personal documents in an attempt to both protect and destroy the identity forced upon me by corporations, institutions and society. The reliefs are a voyeuristic insight to the shifting landscapes of my identity and contain fragments of information not normally made public. As a society, we try to ease our existence with technical advances but in the end these advances can make life more complex by further pushing the walls of separation between the individual and the mechanisms of society. I continue to reflect on how each person is being reduced to a mere number by corporations and institutions; we have lost our sense of individuality. Like…
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