Sea Level | Archival Pigment Print | 56" x 43" (Addition of .3) | 2013

Artist Statement: My work is an intersection of the symbolic realm of time and space, identity and self-perception, both personal and collective. In this body of work, I attempt to question the relationship between painting and performance. Through my visual performances, staged solely to be photographed or filmed with no audience, ideas are transformed into a ritualistic theatre. The studio space is randomly orchestrated, evolving time, space, objects and body gesture. It’s an ephemeral and authentic experience that could not be repeated. Dance is absorbed by the magnitude of the gesture, and incorporating my body gesture as a method for capturing the reflection of emotions and the tension between movement and stillness. This photo-collage work represents a sequence of shots that were taken during the performance. These documents are fragmentations that evoke the idea of a dissociation of a pure movement. The gesture of a moving body that reduces to its significant fragment. This fragmentary aesthetic has the power of snapshot photography that isolates a meaning, a transcendental moment, a memory to keep alive, or to create an impact where the image crosses emotions. It’s by the juxtaposition of the body in space and time, and the object’s setting that makes one see not just a situation-response but how this interactive space gives an image, which is a scripting of a specific point in time.