PARTICULARs

Every one of us has our own internal way of ordering what we see. While making this work I wanted to open up and explore my own process of collecting the information -> assigning meaning -> building an experience. In the process realized that my own hectic style of creating is directly connected to the way I perceive things; I experience the world as an endless collection of loosely connected elements. That is why photography with its quality to capture fragments of reality has been a medium of choice for me. Eventually though my frustration with the way photographs have no real presence in physical space lead me to more sculptural explorations. This series has been put together by a simple repetitive gesture and with attempt to create an alternative environment for looking at everyday things and their presence in space.

Exploring the relationship between looking and putting puzzles together, making sense out of what I see leads toward my own sense of place; it points to how and where I choose to position myself as an observer (passive) and an artist (active).

Reflective of a singular perception, this work is ultimately about an internal search for order. Attempting to go through the garbage of my memory, I pick up pieces to create a symbolic collage to ask questions about recognition, experience, meaning and direction.

This series of works was presented as a part of my Senior Thesis at St Johns University in 2007.