AMERICAN ZEITGEIST
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In a radio
interview on Public Radio in 2006, Author John Updike said "American art
since (Jackson) Pollock has failed to capture the American Zeitgeist."
This statement made me think about the mood and feeling of our era. Our
time is so diverse and segmented I think it is impossible to truly capture
the American Zeitgeist. However, setting a course of attempting to capture
the American Zeitgeist provides a focus that unites and informs this body
of work.
I strive to make relevant, memorable
American images that make people think. I focus on finding the extraordinary
in ordinary American life. I am interested in reflecting the mood and
feeling of our era.
These compositions combine two
or more images into a single artwork. I combine images because I want
enough information to engage the viewer in looking for connections between
images, and to incite the viewer to search their own past and to think
about common images in a different way. I strive for ambiguity to increase
the number of viewer interpretations.
When one thinks about what appeals
to Americans today in movies, politics, celebrities, food, etc., people
seem to want to be attracted to - and repelled by images at the same time.
My sometimes voyeuristic, broken-narrative compositions reflect America's
channel-changing attention span and state of mind.
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