In recent projects like what lies between here and there and The Lost Object Project, I continue to investigate the intersection in my work between geographical displacement, loss, memory, narrative, and commodity, using print, digital, and interactive media as visual communication tools to explore the complex relationship between an original or authentic experience or object and its copy, replica, or surrogate. While rooted in personal experience, I have a more sociological interest in the way we use technology-mediated experiences to process both mundane and significant life events around these themes, using the technology of the Internet, for example, as a communication tool that allows people to interact on a daily basis in order to share the ephemera of daily life. Creating work that uses the Internet in some way seems to reconcile my interest in the way people behave and communicate (or fail to communicate), nodding to the history of conceptualism, with my more painterly temperament.


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