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Currently, I am exploring visual relationships between microscopic structures and social systems and networks. Pathology
and cellular reproduction is a specific area of interest where I am investigating how certain diseases develop, reproduce
and form colonies not unlike our human civilization. Living in an urban environment with the formation of neighborhoods
demarcated by invisible lines known only by the inhabitants is very similar to cellular construction and communication.
While some neighborhoods seem to be diseased and deteriorating, others are vibrant and active. Often this occurs as a result
of how we dissect ourselves according to beliefs, views, interests, races, classes and languages. Similarly, both healthy
and unhealthy cells divide among themselves according to specific needs of the larger organism or the genetic construction
of the pathological formation.
In addition, I am also exploring various construction methods that involve
deconstruction, or reductive processes using a wide variety of materials. I am interested in exploring the creative and visual
processes by which these materials can be manipulated to mimic patterns found on maps, plants, animals or underneath the microscope.
By examining how something can be deconstructed, essentially, I am exploring how it is created in the first place. Furthermore,
juxtaposing materials in a way that differs from their original intent invites the viewer into the work to question why and
how a particular piece is constructed and to create the correlation between process and concept.
Mapping, 2006. Ink, vellum.
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Cell, 2006, Ink and vellum.
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