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"No mud, no lotus."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

My work is a mashup of indigenous spiritualism, popular culture, the metaphysical and outsider Zen.

I create two-dimensional, mixed-media art out of found materials, textiles, photography and paint in a way that could be loosely described as low-relief assemblage. Primarily, these works are centred around a degraded photograph — whether it be through photocopy, image transfer or découpage — as the raw, primitive imprint of my subject is what I find to be of most interest.

I'm inspired by our very base, dark and heightened experiences: trauma, personal crisis, sex, loss, social stigma and transcendence — those life-changing events that break us, leaving one vulnerable, ungrounded and often in disbelief. Whether filtered through media news stories, my personal life, mythology, or casual observation, I like to dig into the intimate details and head space of my subjects to get a sense of their true heart (or the heart of the matter) and connect that to the mystical or Spirit realm — to that in between place where our earthly conditions converge with the Unseen. Since our physical existence forms just one part of our lives, my art practice, quite literally, is concerned with projecting what may be seen and understood about us through ancestral eyes.

For these very reasons, I classify my work as ritualistic pop art.

My underlying themes dwell on how one passes through affliction to a place of self-possession.