I see the world as out of my control, a situation countered by my need for control in my own environment. Landscape and the everyday are prominent themes within my work because as an adult, I am in a position where I now have relative autonomy. I see this as a response to how controlled everything was growing up as a child. As an artist, I am influenced by my past experiences and create images as a form of empowerment. I then use this archive of images as a means of reconciling myself with the past by arranging a contingent, metaphoric narrative of my present life. I attempt to uncover unconscious metaphors and to reconcile my memory and my life experiences.
November 2012