Meaning in The Digital Age

           The best moments of my life are when I forget myself. To make this a ritual I use chance, choice, and personal myth to find and then anchor myself through the tactile. For example, by filtering through hundreds and sometimes thousands of personal images the Strategic Meaning series underscores just how much fulfillment that process can exhume from an uncertain life in our Digital Age. Our use of images today mirrors this reality and its revision. Through these common but estranged scenes the Yourself/Myself series explores psychological qualities of home life. In turning inward from that, the Childhood series dives deeper to find the mysterious in the mundane. In isolation, a spoon. Solace from a wooden toy. This pathology for meaning becomes the material of the work. Through infinite variations I can collage, paint the collage, scan the painting, screen print it on fabric, etc. In effect, an exhaustive experience forms a personal memory that produces a genuine artifact of self. So, when I am working, forgetting myself to again find ‘the self’ in this age becomes a moment of perfect reality.