I seek to cultivate viewing experiences that challenge how we understand ourselves in relationship to those around us, both socially and culturally. While contributing to discourse present in the broader contemporary art world, this trajectory has led me to examine the historical relationship between figuration and abstraction in conjunction with the metaphysics of Minimalism—how eliminating all non-essential forms enable one’s awareness of being.
Furthermore, my recent works reference the history of painterly innovations associated with Black abstraction, the principles of non-Euclidean geometry, phenomenology and the parallax view. In all, I strive to construct an aesthetic that creates challenging and unconventional viewing experiences. The subjects of these inquiries reflect intentions to politicize abstraction in the interest of suggesting perception as a defining factor in our cultural affair with otherness. Working in tandem with these concepts, I would like my future work to reconsider the causal-relationship between my philosophical and social concerns—namely, the resulting image and desired viewing experience. I plan to dive deeper into creating image-objects that provoke perceived experiences and collectively share a consciousness of one’s willingness to alter personal perception in order to correct how difference is seen. The resulting image is subsequently a shaped object on a wall that conveys meaning in its physical presence. It mediates meaningful experiences by fostering curiosity and anxiety in questioning how to approach it.
