Pittsburgh Artist Registry

I am trying to get at something so simple / that I have to talk plainly / so the words don’t disfigure it / and if it turns out that what I say is untrue / then at least let it be harmless / like a leaky boat in the reeds / that is bothering no one.

-from “Self-Portrait at 28” by David Berman

There are very few things that I am certain about. I consider my practice as a multidisciplinary artist and poet is a series of attempts to make sense of the ineffable business of living. I create using a variety of media and formats, interested equally in the subtlety of a blind embossment and the blunt presence of a billboard advertisement.

Regardless of scale, my work is intimate in nature, made by distilling personal experience into pieces that may speak more generally to the human condition. Small moments such as a view of the horizon or an uttered sentence can act as catalysts for works that become artifacts and monuments to these moments. I am interested in the way we understand ourselves in relation to the people and places that construct our daily environment, and how this understanding changes through the scope of distance and time.  I am interested in investigating intimacy in the public sphere, of bridging the private with the communal, the personal with the universal.