I believe in play as an aesthetic vocation. Everything I make is a kind of toy for the eyes and senses. What I mean by that is they should enable a kind of activation of the embodied imagination through sight, or even in some cases offer themselves as an optical tonic for our neurasthenic condition.

 

I work with common things, like toys, domestic glassware, calculator keys and ribbons.  Objects we know through sight as well as touch, and therefore evoke sense memories alongside visual pleasures.  Many of these objects, I would suggest, have played a role in unconsciously shaping aesthetic tastes and sensibilities that shift over time in a broader, more nebulous way. At the very least, I tap into the histories that these common elements of material culture contain. At best, I want to confabulate them into a natural history of the future.  

 

I  reanimate these histories by granting the objects themselves a kind of  half-life within my videos. My goal is to build upon that magnified materiality granted to objects we might fetishize. I want to make a  work that reshuffles all the sensory and aesthetic associations they generate and reshuffle a

 

 I am not a documentarian. I have no desire to evince the history of sensation with that kind of objective accuracy. I wish instead to build new futures from the past, sometimes by mis-reading it, as all great art has done. 

 

A few of these pieces are installed as single video art displays. Most I imagine as part of a decorative, synaesthetic environment.