Artisit Statement
On a very deep level, I hear an echo inside my very essence lamenting the loss of a symbiosis between humans and nature. It is from this slough that this body of work flows.

These images are the visual manifestation of the tension in me between natural life and technology. Like these images that equally occupy those themes, I firmly represent the space between them on a daily basis in pursuit of my livelihood and art. Where on one hand I am a product of my times as reflected in the tools available to me, on the other hand I abhor my dependancy on technology that provides for my very existence. Not simply in the form of tools I use for my work (computers, scanners, cameras, lasers, etc), my life is dependent on any and everything that plugs into a wall (stoves, refrigerators, grocery stores, fuel distribution systems, etc.) Think about how drastically you're life would be affected if, from this moment on, there was no more electricity.

Ever.

I soak into the evening skies and the rich vibrations of color. All the while I am intellectually mesmerized by the aesthetic of black lines multisecting space - "The Grid" manifest. These are moments of macabre beauty that inspire an unusual bliss. My process, a fusion of high craft and high tech, mirrors this experience. The natural is represented by the richly hand-painted skyscapes, using techniques and earth-found materials traditionally associated with rendering landscapes in oil – including mineral oxide pigments, bee's wax, and tree-based resins and spirits. The technological silhouettes are rendered using computer-based technology (thus electrical) including digital photography and illustration, laser-etching and materials science.

Many of these images feature electrical towers suspending, what are technically referred to as "high tension lines." I couldn't have named them better myself, considering the effect they have on me when a grid of them ensnares a symphonic overture of light in the form of a perfect sunset. Much like the work of a war photographer, this body is an artistic, if not editorially journalistic record of conflict. This body is a record of man-stamped landscapes _ man'dscapes, for short.

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