Statement

When you listen to the radio, once in a while someone will email or call-in and ask the DJ to play a song dedicated to someone. You love this song also so you start thinking about the parties involved. Are they lovers? Friends? Family? What experiences have they shared together?

I believe that this is the essential nature of what a medium is. We live our lives through art. Especially when we refer to art in the very big, meta-sense-of the-word. Installation art, soap operas, pop songs, films, self-help books, love letters, … the whole mess of creative means in our world, all serve to mediate our emotionality, and by extension, our spirituality.

My current work stems from exploring the artworks that comprise my own selfhood, which include Mariah Carey songs and Japanese soap dramas. By inserting these cultural objects in my artwork I examine how these things communicate, or perhaps fail to communicate, aspects of my own life to the viewer.

Whether it is a video of me remembering crucial moments in my life through a song, or a sculpture that recreates props from a TV show that made me weep, my works become a jumping point for the viewer. Through my work they will begin to imagine the emotions I feel and the things that may have happened in my life, as well as remember what has happened in their own lives and relive those moments.

At the core of my practice is a conviction that even contemporary and conceptual art can be reduced to the simple act of sharing a bit of you with someone else.