Artist Statement

My art practice is the exploration of selected spatial experiences. My work unites place memories of the past, such as collected travel experiences with everyday explorations of the neighborhood I call home, at any given time. Exploring space via the practice of walking is an important aspect of my approach. Emphasizing my pedestrian experiences of the built environment, my artistic practice is deeply embedded in the historic legacy of Situationist International, and is influenced by thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau.

What originally started as an unconscious process has morphed into a highly conscious practice, closely tied to the collection of field research of urban and rural environments I set out to analyze and/or where I am installing my work. My paintings, tape installations, and my contributions to multi-media collaborations, are reactions to and an analysis of my movement through physical space. My walking art projects allow me to share my artistic research practice and methodology and set out to encourage participants to actively analyze their everyday life in the city or town they live in. By walking art, I mean artistic practices that—via the act of walking— set out to write and read the city from the perspective of everyday practitioners.

My work seeks to create an altered spatial experience that encourages my audience and participants to reflect upon their everyday spatial behavior and partake in the meaning generation of everyday life. I aim to create an immersive environment offering altered and, thus, new spatial situations that provoke critical thinking and puzzle my audience—intellectually and physically. Even though my installations and paintings appear highly structured, elements of spontaneity and improvisation are integral to them. My current practice is situation-specific, and I continuously try to involve a relationship between materials, concepts, actions, and locations.