My work is an attempt to expose the power structures that dominate our lives; those we witness, take for granted, and participate in (both consciously and subconsciously). I want to peel back and reveal traditional artifices, dominant cultural hierarchies, social systems and their effects, exposing their substructures like armatures in order to provide context for the creation of new, unexpected connections and personal truths. I want to visually create a lexicon for personal intellectual potential, opening viewers to the capacity for the reformation of new and individual paradigms. I do not desire to impose any sort of didactics or push a personal moral agenda, but rather to shed light on and bring into discussion the archaic and repressive structures we take for granted and are often indifferent or unaware of as a culture due to long temporal and historical entrenchment. As a means for activating the human psyche, I often work with the mundane and familiar, (toys, anonymous vacation photos gleaned from the internet, found objects, paint etc.) to re-contextualize the everyday, shifting points of emphasis through a Deleuzian re-formation and re-patterning of the known and accepted. By way of personally generated techniques in combination with a formal approach to structures inherent to the art world, I reveal the problematic through a process of reduction, simplification and negation. Ultimately, my work provides no solutions and no answers. Instead it exists as a signal, acting as a call to arms while serving as an ontological bruise to the human ego, exposing the ridiculous nature, cruelty, and absurdity of humanity.