3587 PAPINEAU

…is the address of my apartment-- a big house filled with the trim, furnishings and treasures of the six family members who live in this place.

My son’s favorite pig, the water in the bath, the floorboards in a certain room, all details from days spent here. As Henri Lefebvre notes, the "concept of everydayness [can] reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.” These banal minutiae of the ‘everyday’ become charged with emotional energy and meaning as they distill through the many-layered filters of perception.

Exploring these ‘filters’ drives this body of work—or more specifically, a reflection on the process of mimesis (defined as the attempt to represent the appearance of an external, tangible reality). Mimesis and mediation serve as a means to learn about nature, through perceptual experience, allowing us a deeper connection to the “real”. Existing objects or elements of nature re-created through these acts of imitation are beautified, improved upon, and ultimately, universalized.

Created in a modular format (12” x 12”), no one single image captures a specific narrative, as each, when viewed individually, can be difficult to assess. It is this multitude of images, combined into a ‘whole’ that tell the ‘story’ of the space and the lives that infuse it with meaning. The works, united, become a generator of possibilities, reflecting the way I have perceived and imitated “reality” around me through the process of ‘re-creating’ my environment. "3587 Papineau" represents the literal act of manufacturing of a space within another, as installed into the gallery setting.

In this way the work becomes a vehicle for me to physically and mentally approach a personal history, which, when viewed by others, engenders a shared human meaning. They stand in reaction to our media-saturated contemporary society, each detail becoming a drawn ‘hyper-reality’ where the perception between the ‘real’ and the imaginary implodes.

Such an exploration is timely as our world struggles to explore individual and shared definitions of humanity. My drawings study how our actions and quite literally, our touch, define us--- giving meaning to the simple act of being human in a specific time and place.




3587 PAPINEAU

…is the address of my apartment-- a big house filled with the trim, furnishings and treasures of the six family members who live in this place.

My son’s favorite pig, the water in the bath, the floorboards in a certain room, all details from days spent here. As Henri Lefebvre notes, the "concept of everydayness [can] reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.” These banal minutiae of the ‘everyday’ become charged with emotional energy and meaning as they distill through the many-layered filters of perception.

Exploring these ‘filters’ drives this body of work—or more specifically, a reflection on the process of mimesis (defined as the attempt to represent the appearance of an external, tangible reality). Mimesis and mediation serve as a means to learn about nature, through perceptual experience, allowing us a deeper connection to the “real”. Existing objects or elements of nature re-created through these acts of imitation are beautified, improved upon, and ultimately, universalized.

Created in a modular format (12” x 12”), no one single image captures a specific narrative, as each, when viewed individually, can be difficult to assess. It is this multitude of images, combined into a ‘whole’ that tell the ‘story’ of the space and the lives that infuse it with meaning. The works, united, become a generator of possibilities, reflecting the way I have perceived and imitated “reality” around me through the process of ‘re-creating’ my environment. "3587 Papineau" represents the literal act of manufacturing of a space within another, as installed into the gallery setting.

In this way the work becomes a vehicle for me to physically and mentally approach a personal history, which, when viewed by others, engenders a shared human meaning. They stand in reaction to our media-saturated contemporary society, each detail becoming a drawn ‘hyper-reality’ where the perception between the ‘real’ and the imaginary implodes.

Such an exploration is timely as our world struggles to explore individual and shared definitions of humanity. My drawings study how our actions and quite literally, our touch, define us--- giving meaning to the simple act of being human in a specific time and place.