My practice positions art making as a site of contestation, a method for dismantling and reassembling the popular narratives that structure our collective reality. Taking inherited symbolism and archetypes as a starting point for the work, I examine how narrative frameworks settle over time into systems; shaping everything from individual subjectivity to world economies. My work can ultimately be read as a move to contest commonly-held beliefs by encouraging the viewer to question and reimagine the stories that frame our experiences, and in doing so question the kinds of reality that they both enable and prevent.
In many belief systems throughout history the dog has come to be associated with our other intimate companion, death; assuming a central role as a guide between the worlds of the known and the unknowable, human and animal, and symbolically between the conscious mind and that of the unconscious psyche.
Devourer of carrion, tame, ever hungry, burying and discovering bones, dogs attend and assimilate death.
- the artist