Let’s draw the imaginary line that exists between us. What does it look like?
Every relationship and social interaction can be dissected to reveal a complex political map with the same imaginary borders, territories and customs that humans seem hardwired to create on any unfamiliar terrain. When I walk into a bar, an office or a dinner party, I cannot help but obsessively analyze every unspoken social rule and interaction. In my artwork, I want to create a tangible representation and analysis of these phenomena. I want to visually deconstruct our social instincts, our relationships and our environment in a futile attempt to pin down the elusive rules of human relations. These analyses have become the core of my artwork, revealing a complex and sometimes overwhelming network of anxieties underlying everyday interactions.
Using a variety of media including video and installation, I take my material directly from my own social experiences. I often use myself, my friends and my acquaintances as subjects, taking real information from our lives and manipulating it to create an analysis of our social sphere. Though the results may not always be completely objective or factually accurate, they create an honest picture of everyday social anxiety. My artwork often reflects the loneliness and obsessiveness of my process, but also the ways in which our common anxieties can unite us. Though I doubt my attempts to analyze human interaction could ever produce any scientific answers, I feel that by using my artwork to document my fixation on the subject, I come closer to discovering some common threads that run between us.