Picture frames traditionally delineate, or border one area of activity from another and suggest cultural significance. Viewers are invited to question their initial preconceptions concerning relative value. These works draw from diverse sources of personal experience, observation, and history, art and otherwise. They attempt to connect disparate aspects of culture and human behavior. A middle class, suburban, background has led me to a keen awareness of the cultural significance of boundaries.
Boundaries express ownership and control.
They create hierarchies and are exclusive. Boundaries may be viewed simultaneously as both positive and negative forces preventing society from falling into anarchy or achieving utopia. Process and Materials Natural objects are collected, scanned and incorporated with images from mass media sources that have been digitized, combined, contained, and manipulated. This process, while utilizing technology, embodies the same aesthetic and empirical decision making that is applied to painting or drawing with traditional media. The images are digitally printed on archival paper in edititons of 20.