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, every several months I filter through about a thousand personal images as source material for two series of work. The Domestic Life series explores a common but an estranged home life. In isolation a spoon, solace from a wooden toy, and the mysterious in the mundane. An incessant pathology for meaning with idle hands, becomes the material of the work. Significance from an uncertain life in the Digital Age has to be exhumed. In my Abstract series 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 tangible artifact of self. By working to reset myself in this Digital Age moments of a more present reality can still be found.