Barriers
Starting in 2010, I’ve worked with translucent and found materials, discovering plexiglass as a surface that resonates with my themes. Its clarity and hardness evoke a sense of disconnection and the presence of barriers—linguistic, cultural, and psychological. I incorporated the detritus of shopping into these paintings- plastic bags, receipts, and packaging- by drawing their traces into the work. Using it to form a personal iconography, symbols like the target appear simultaneously as corporate logo, bodily organ, an object adrift in space. A disembodied experience is implied in the inorganic qualities of the plexiglass and the tracings of elements of consumer culture. The images of things consumed that are an endless distraction and a barrier to intimacy and human connection, finally turn into imagined compositions.
