artist's statement
The process and the work become the same over time. The process involves ritual-like movements within the natural environment, and the same in the studio.
In the environment, I travel, walk, search, ask questions, research, collect, document, and rearrange using installation, audio, and other media. The searching, interventions, and installations are documented and then left to become ruin, which, over time, reference their original state. Sometimes, the sites are revisited and the change is recorded.
In the studio, a physical memory takes place where layering of visual story and weaving of objective and non-objective forms happen.
The final result, the matter and events leftover at the end, are a reflection of the art making process.
It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function.
-- Walter Benjamin