I intend for my work to be an entry point to a discussion of the failures of visual communication and an exploration of the shortcomings of the visual storage and transmission of data. I seek inspiration from etymology, diagrams, museum displays, the written word and other arenas where the visual is the chosen mode of communication. My work seeks to highlight the parallax between the attempted/intended meaning of the pure visual object and its new—and perhaps more real—meaning, once filtered through the stored knowledge of the viewer. I attempt to find the objective ‘truth’ of the transmission in the space between.
Visual artifacts—I believe—are often more isolated from their meaning by the passing of time and the adaptation of surrounding symbols than words are, due perhaps to the frequency to which we use (and adapt) our verbal symbols as compared to our visual. I believe it is imperative for the artist, as one who has chosen the visual to communicate ideas, to acknowledge this gap, and I have chosen to work with it and highlight it in my own work.
I'm also taking some more photos of newer work; I've come up with a way to light them so they don't look totally amateur, just a little.
