My work deals with the traffic of information in contemporary culture. Through a mixture of appropriated imagery and object-based content, I examine the thread of information that unites these cast-off items and images. These inquiries may take the shape of removal, or obscuring critical elements of the material, which is a method often used by authority to control the flow of information in our society.
My recent work makes use of the image and object relationship, as well as my Post Structuralist research interests. These works are less referential of our current political climate, and look to those past socio-cultural tactics and methodologies that have altered and underpin our lives. These works retain the core process of redaction, and are illustrative of my primary research interest in our society’s heavily controlled flow of information.
I appropriate both from ‘low’ and ‘high’ culture, borrowing the aesthetic of kitsch decoration and abutting it to the sparse aesthetic of minimalist art. This contrast not only refers to those artificial divisions in accessibility of art information. These ‘cultural remnants’ that make up these comparisons begin to form a new metalanguage of information.