I create what I call holographic poems, or holopoems, which are essentially digital holograms that address language both as material and subject matter. I create visual texts which can only signify upon the active perceptual and cognitive engagement on the part of the reader or viewer. My holopoems don't rest quietly on the surface. When the viewer starts to look for words and their links, the texts will transform themselves, move in three-dimensional space, change in color and meaning, coalesce and disappear. This viewer-activated choreography is as much a part of the signifying process as the transforming verbal and visual elements themselves.
Language plays a fundamental role in the constitution of our experiential world.
To question the structure of language is to investigate how realities are constructed. My holograms define a linguistic experience that takes place outside syntax and conceptualize instability as a key signifying agent. I use holography and computer holography to blur the frontier between words and images and to create an animated syntax that stretches words beyond their meaning in ordinary discourse. My conceptual holography is both an investigation of the processes of language and of holographic meaning. The temporal and rhythmic structure of my works play an important role in creating this tension between visual language and verbal images.