Das Objekt No. 1 Print

I start with the idea that the meaning of an artwork is primarily unknown until engaged with by a viewer. The meaning the viewer finds is personal and resides only in their mind. Any attempt by the artist to say what their art means is best viewed as intention. There is both the personal meaning for those who engage with the artwork and a cultural meaning. The cultural meaning must be continually constructed through a process in which the culture the artwork is embedded in, engages with the artwork. Said in another way, the viewing of the artwork by many viewers (or rather many, many countless viewers) constructs its meaning. The meaning of an artwork is both created and discovered in a process that takes place through time, always becoming but never arriving. However, the meaning of an artwork is most significant when it is personal. My art is an attempt to create such personally meaningful artworks by engaging with ideas and subject matter that I am deeply interested in and find personally meaningful. I grew up in southern California, and attended art school at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA. I moved to Berlin, Germany in 2017 where my Studio is currently located. In my artistic practice I'm most interested with ideas of perception and how our perception changes depending on how deeply we engage with the object of our gaze. I look to represent familiar objects and genres in order to rethink generally held notions, assumptions, and beliefs. By seeing with new perspectives, angles or framing.