In my creative practice I am exploring the connections between people, the natural world, and political events. I am a multidisciplinary artist who uses sound and experimental animation to create digital worlds. These created worlds help me interpret and understand hierarchies and cycles in nature and how social and political systems seek to control and exploit nature and humanity. My work is political, environmental, satirical and deeply personal. 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. 

     The process for my work is its own cycle. It has become ritual where at certain points in each season I am collecting, categorizing, curating and researching subject matter, sketching and experimenting with new tools and techniques, or fleshing out characters. I am developing a standard line of inquiry and using my own experiential lens to make sense of real-world issues in an imaginary realm. 

I am continuously adding to a digital reference library of sound recordings, videos, photos and media snatched from the headlines and also that I have captured while exploring nature. These images and recordings provide a scaffolding for narrative and world building. I am searching for connections, personal meaning, political commentary and intriguing stories. 

     I find inspiration in unconventional cinematography and framing techniques. Seamless transitions become a focal point; enabling characters of one scene to connect to the next in unanticipated ways. Scale and the laws of physics are subverted to advance the narrative; moving towards not an end, but a point of rebirth in an endless cycle. The enmeshment of sound and evocative visual elements carry the viewer from whichever point they engage the work to whichever point they choose to disengage. There is no discernable beginning, no defined end, and everything is connected.