I am interested in the relationship between the everyday and the extraordinary. I photograph, draw, or film tableaus made out of common materials and frame them in a way that references vast scales. I want to create images that are familiar and unfamiliar; grand and absurd; serious and comedic.
My desires for creating landscapes have multiple and divergent roots: lunar and post lunar explorations (early models of the moon, first lunar landing, subsequent explorations of space), earthly investigations into unreachable territories (treacherous bipedal expeditions, deep sea trench expeditions) and the literature that precedes it (Verne, Conrad, Melville, Kafka). In the forefront of all these influences are the moving images of Werner Herzog, Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Ackerman—pointing to the uncommon in the everyday, and the common in the not so common.