I’ve read hundreds of pages of federal regulatory code to find a way to legally buy yellowcake uranium. Several of my paintings have been (unjustly) incinerated by an EPA hazmat team, and I have a little bit of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project embedded in my palm. 

 

With an almost neurotic curiosity about the world, fact-finding and Wikipedia click holes entertain me as much as anything. Consequentially, my artwork often centers on a captivating figure I’ve stumbled across and expands outward to incorporate more complicated materials and sometimes misunderstood subject matter that lies beyond everyday familiarity. Things like radiation, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, germs, GMOs, and even narcotics are all fascinating and unnerving. While often considered outright dangerous, I present these technologies as complex tools—able to accomplish both evil and good.

 

Elegant and striking visuals in my work function as an icebreaker for deeper engagement with these topics. I utilize sleek, modern, and minimal materials, often employing repetition and symmetry in my hybridized works in addition to strategic flashes of supersaturation.