I've been making paintings since 1990, while I was enrolled at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. My inspiration stems from a few different sources. Probably the most primal influence is my dark fascination with 1950s-60s science fiction B-movies and television. My only coherent memories as a child ar sitting in front of the tube watching This Island Earth or Fantastic Voyage with a somewhat frightening degree of intensity.

My focus as an artist are the dynamics that are inherent in a technologically enhanced civilization. The western impulse to manifest a cultural utopia has lead us to an abstracted realm of hyperactive information flow. Streams of data circulate in an antiphysical branchline where metasystems correlate bits of code into a programmed construct of inconcievable notions. This is an evolutionary model which reinvents the manner of human perception.

This is the fully functional electronic universe.

In my work, I seek to translate what I percieve as "aspects of consciousness" of the global network onto canvas. In the process, I subvert this universal paradigm of recombinant culture and create an absurd spectacle where reality shifts into a surrealistic display of science fiction kitsch. I envision various tableaus in which iconic figures are working towards the goal of redefining themselves through technological apparatus.

The construct, or environment is a vital element in my work as the physical breakdown of reality metamorphoses into a new type of space where a multitude of situations may exist on a single plane. These environments explore thematic narratives that seek out parallels between biological research, commodification, human and sociological development and mediated reality. In short, a visual dialogue which explores the irregularity of the digital era.