The human body is an incredibly elaborate and beautiful system, but when we face a physical or psychological crisis that strikes at our mortality, aggravates phobias and stimulates fear, it is a visceral mess yielding unforgiving strain. Unfortunately, being without knowledge of the body's particlulars and lacking x-ray vision, we are left defenseless. As a result we place an enormous amount of trust in the health care field; specifically, medical diagrams, x-rays and increasingly sophisticated 3-D technology, which are all used to provide a sense of pictorial clarity. They allow us to visulaize and understand our bodily problems, but they can also stimulate a psychological dialogue between mind and body, magnifying fear that can seize our imagination. This dilemma and the resulting dialogue that occurs within the psyche is the focus of my current practice in the studio.

As a result, my work touches on a range of bodily subjects and conditions, illustrating how the body functions and dysfunctions, while exploring the instability and fragility of our physical form and psyche in a space where excess, exaggeration and the surreal play havoc on the mind and body. Achieving this in the studio involves the appropriation of photographs and diagrams on topics such as the digestive system or blood clots, which are then scanned into the computer and manipulated through digital collage and drawing. When this process is done, the digital imagery is transferred onto a support where the work is executed, but is still subject to conceptual changes and modifications. When completed, the finished work is fanciful, grotesque and can even be comedic, while capturing and documenting the array of responses we undergo when confronting and attempting to grasp the unfamiliar and unpredictable interior regions of the human body.