“My work is often interpreted as being about my own mixed-cultural past and also the cultural complexity of America’s past. Referencing ancient and modern mythologies from all over the world, I explore memory, moment and social changes in human history, examining scientific and philosophical questions about multi-dimensionality, teleportation and M theory (quantum concepts). The materials I employ include “excrements of industry”, such as coal, glass, oil, tar, mirrors and gold dust. With these tools I explore themes of waste and destruction, and existential issues of life and death.
“For me drawing is an order of various actions that create visions – a way of recalling archetypal memories, which then become the catalyst for the creation of the new forms that my hands conjure before me. The image is what is left over from an ‘encounter’ with the activity of drawing or painting. I only experience the process. The product itself is simply a memory: a door to the experience. In this way, I am always creating a mirror: a message about identity that questions local and global cultural constructs. It is a process of uncovering, or rubbing out of the reflection of the observer and replacing that with the archetype. Mirror:Mirror 2012 is the ultimate expression of this process.”
