Artist Statement:
When the lights dim, and the projector lights up, the audience is transported to another reality where they can ruminate on ideas, symbols, images, and feelings. The world falls away and for a while there is just the screen and the audience. Film provides the viewer with a visual experience that transcends conventional reality and allows the viewer to exist in a meditative state of mind.
I create film pieces that provide this kind of experience. The films I create use looping abstract patterns of images and sounds that cannot be found in the world around us. The abstracted visuals create a sensation of existing apart from everyday life. With these films, I create a space for the viewer where time stands still, and the world feels far away. The films that have left the longest impression on me have inspired this in me and I hope to create work that creates this sort of experience for others. 1960’s and 1970’s experimental cinema has been particularly influential for me especially important to me. I was inspired by work by artists like Stan Brakhage, Andrei Tarkovsky, and David Lynch all of whom try to elicit the sort of experiences that I find to be so powerful. I have created a series of films that are unique to me but exist within this cinematic tradition. Moving forward, I aim to create work that continues in this direction and creates sensory experiences that help create meditative and unconventional spaces for viewers to find respite in.
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