Artist Statement

I'm interested in promoting beauty and joy in the world. Beauty, because it transcends time. Joy, because it's what we're made of.

At the intersection of beauty and joy, we get human magic. We can turn stress into resilience. Confusion into clarity, fatigue into respite. We make the best of what we have amidst these two particular external experiences.

My dominant bodies of work are in images: oil on canvas paintings, latex paintings on a variety of surfaces, and digital images derived directly from Twitter data which I call Twitterscap.es. My style is predominantly abstract; and pursue my fascination with forms that seek the infinite; their geometric perfection and their messy relationship with reality. The images, which feature spirals, pixels (rectangular representations of singularity in a group) and vibrant colors, in turn describe boundaries, relationships, moods and statements. Topics for paintings are chosen from life's cheerful glimmers and nagging impressions.

Twitterscap.es used to generate images directly from Twitter data - first from the firehose, then through the authenticated API. The feed from this source would be pulled in real-time and mapped into images that abstract the tweets in that moment into color macro-pixels- letter for letter, with the tweet author's profile colors. As Twitter processes millions of tweets per second, it would be infinitely difficult (impossible?) to make all possible Twitterscapes, so the ones that do exist have a distinction - that its moment in time, chosen by a person to view it, was pulled out of Infinity.