General Statement

The Internet provides individuals, groups, and organizations a worldwide multimedia forum for expression, promotion, branding, and sales. My work uses deconstructed abstractions of actual websites and Internet nomenclature to create new compositions in a removed, off-line environment. The layout, structure, and purpose of these sites directly inform the compositions and narratives of my work. Colors and shapes are governed almost exclusively by the original website's design, and linked pages of a single site are often included, providing a diagram of a site user’s online path in my final composition.

Barack’s Twitter, for example, is a single-page abstraction of the (then) Presidential candidate’s Twitter account. Created in part as a playful portrait of the candidate, it also alludes to the aggressive and unprecedented reach of political campaigns into the world of online social networking. The more visually complex Shopping for a Designer Wallet (2005 | 2007) features a diptych of the page-by-page journey of a user’s online retail quest. Here, a diagram of the same task on the same website is presented twice, recording both visual and usability changes that occurred in the span of two years’ time. The resulting piece charts the specific website’s evolution and speaks to the Internet’s dynamic nature at large.

Selected Exhibition Statements

Wishing Well for Houston, Art League Houston, Houston, TX, 2010.

Mechanical Perception, Fotofest, Houston, TX, 2008.

Lawndale Has Many Friends, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, 2007.