Harper Ferry

As an artist, my goal is to create art that no one else would make. That means beginning with the raw materials that are most unique to me, such as my life and experience, my values, the world that I inhabit, and the relationships that combine and transform to make my perspective wholly my own. It also means thinking critically and creatively about the processes I use to physically manifest art, and what kind of world is configured by the techniques that I make use of. In making art that is entirely unique, I hope to create works that extend beyond the particularities of my own experience to take on new life and new meaning through engagement. Art necessarily draws on the viewer’s engagement and perception in order to make something very particular into something which can be shared. My practice as an artist is aimed at working directly with the agency of the viewer as the medium through which the concepts behind the art are expressed. 

My artistic practice is an interventionist one, concerned with the easy flow of individuals through the labyrinth of modern society, and with the steady current of isolating and exploitative content that pushes us into the same boring channels of activity. These days, even artists and anarchists stand around discussing subscription television shows. My work offers an avenue to engage in collaborative folk art, positioning those who engage with it to become more entertained by themselves and by their friends than by monopoly media companies. While traditional media institutions work to undermine the agency of those who engage with their products, so that they will continue to pay for content that can be made for the largest audience possible and with the least expenses possible. Meanwhile, I strive to create work that leaves those who engage with it feeling more empowered to go about their daily lives creating their own stories and looking to create their own senses of possibility beyond what has been presented to them.