I am an archivist; I use my body as a tool of collection, like a camera, or a memory stick to which moments are filed. My work is rooted in the history of photography and often relates to the controversial status of photography both as a scientific invention and as an art medium. With that, I use the language of abstract and minimalism as a response to the overflowing digital data and imagery of today. 

   The work I do is often installation based and incorporates a wide variety of mediums including video, performance, painting, and sculpture. I often emphasize the integration of several mediums when creating a single piece – a sculpture that becomes an image, a performance that becomes a painting, and a photograph that becomes a sculpture. Each project is site-specific, and dictates its own rules and methodology. I find myself practicing techniques that I have not yet mastered, attempting to reinvent myself each time. I see each project as a performance, and each space as a stage. The process of creation and execution is an experience that couldn't be repeated. The violent nature apparent in my work, directing my subjects to shoot at my cameras, lifting bricks, or being covered in black paint in a live performance, helps me carve the experience into my skin.

    In The Factory Project, located in Beacon, NY, I work in an abandoned industrial space that once was an active factory that produced the bricks that built the empire state building and other city monuments. I use the space as a private studio, where I create works using local found materials (bricks, metal scraps, and wood) together with contemporary technologies (drones, smart phones, tablets, and digital archives) in order to redefine the connection between manual labor and art. In this project I reconsider the notion of "mark making" and its evolution in the digital age. The experience of using a public space as an artist studio simulates working in the cyber space. Both offer free access, and allow for communication, as well as a sense of false privacy; both demand you surrender ownership, and submit your product to be adopted, altered, or destroyed by others. It is a challenge to the notion of the studio as a sacred place.