In my creative practice I am exploring the connections between people, the natural world, and socio-political events. I am a multidisciplinary artist who uses music composition, sound and experimental animation to create large-scale, immersive, digital environments. These created worlds help me interpret and understand hierarchies, cycles, and relationships in nature and how social constructs and political systems seek to control and exploit natural ecosystems and humanity. My work encompasses political, environmental, satirical and deeply personal issues. Plants, animals, political actors, and objects of war become characters in an illustration of my own stream of consciousness; grappling with an entire spectrum of complex issues that act upon the human psyche.

     The process for my work is a ritual that follows seasonal patterns. At certain points throughout the year, I divide my time between researching, collecting, categorizing, and curating subject matter and materials, sketching and experimenting with tools and techniques, and creating characters and scenarios. I have developed a standard line of inquiry and use my own experiential lens to build a story about real-world issues in an imaginary realm.

I am continuously adding to a digital reference library of sound recordings, videos, photos and media; most of which are captured while exploring nature. These images and recordings provide a scaffolding for narrative and world building. In these collections I am searching for connections, personal meaning, political commentary and intriguing stories. 

     I find inspiration in unconventional cinematography and framing techniques. Seamless transitions can become a focal point; enabling elements of one scene to connect to the next in unanticipated ways. Scale and the laws of physics are subverted to advance a narrative, or turn perception on its head; moving towards not an end, but a point of connection.  Using large-scale projection, the enmeshment of sound and evocative visual elements carry the viewer from whichever point they engage the work to wherever they choose to disengage. My work tells stories with striking and surreal visual elements that ask the viewer to suspend disbelief and sparks curiosity about the subjects within. It is intended to persuade the viewer to question the reality we think we know and reconnect them to their own sense of discovery and wonder.