Systems of Understanding.
Buildings manipulate people.  I love seeing concrete glass and bricks forcing us into ways of interacting with each other. We constitute the channeled blood and thoughts of a gestalt city-being created by ourselves, to constrict, define and refine ourselves.  Coming from a childhood spent in an undeveloped forest on a small secluded island, I am very aware of the presence of the city's social and architectural rules, and they please me.

Using inks, acrylics and watercolor, my task is to represent some of the systems that underlie experience in the city.  I do so primarily by using the graphical language of blueprints, but my work is also influenced by the psychogeographical techniques of the Situationists International, the whimsical programming of video games such as SimCity, and other things more or less esoteric.


In a broader sense, my interest lies in the post-human being.  Historically humans have consisted of a human core surrounded by shells of clothes, books, architecture and more. Genetically we consist of miniature self interested societies of mitochondria, RNA, and more. Today we augment ourselves with the tissues of other animals, the energy and clarity of newly formulated synthetic chemicals, and the rhythmic heartbeats of machines.  The erosion of the concept of a singular cohesive human entity interests me.