My artistic practice is the manifestation of my distrust towards myself. This distrust stems from seeing myself as a vehicle for institutional influences, influences that I feel obligated to examine in my practice. I do not attempt to critique or supplant existing institutions, but instead, contend with what is implicated, is unseen, or is made inconceivable when my existence and desires are contained within an establishment, system, or convention.
This examination takes the form of paintings and, on rare occasions, conceptual sculptures. I view images, especially paintings, as the main weapon and manifestation of my institutional influences. The challenge I find in my practice is dealing with the cruelty that paintings are capable of. Paintings give the painter the illusion of total control and extract the painter’s autocratic instincts. I choose to enter this realm in order to challenge these instincts and view myself as a mere bureaucrat.