I’m a life-long packrat, curator, and collector of various cultural objects and ephemera. I combine these collected disparate elements into something transformative, either physically, digitally, or both. My work is an acknowledgment of the past while trying to make sense of the current, technologically driven world we live in. In effect, I straddle the analog and digital worlds and employ a DIY ethos to reinterpret these elements and make connections with ideas about time, memory, existence, history, identity, intimacy, spirituality, ownership, and nostalgia. My process is organic, usually unplanned, often serendipitous, and not necessarily technically proficient. I use this varied material from my collection and look for unusual connections and/or contradictions that can be mysterious, perplexing, and upend a viewer’s expectations of what art can or should be. I want the viewer to experience conflicting emotions and new possibilities. I embrace the ideas of uncertainty and the absurdity of existence. So, any of my collected elements is fodder for malleability and manipulation: Nothing is beyond consideration.

These digitally created images borrow from different overlapping photographs to accentuate a sensation of decay and degradation, setting up a detailed, strange confluence of visual connections. I like to think of these images as a digital palimpsest, not unlike fading, vintage