…"...the powers required to turn a representation by which an object is given into knowledge are the powers of imagination and of reason, imagination to gather together the perceptual manifold, and reason for the unity of the concept to synthesize the representations."

Immanuel Kant


My work explores the contradictory elements of the hidden and the revealed. These components manifest themselves in both technique and theme. While the images are representational, parts of the picture are removed, fracturing the form and creating a sense of abstraction. Compositionally, the viewer is met with the challenge of piecing together an image that is broken by a twisting field of black. What occupies this dark is withheld, so that imagination and reason are responsible for filling it.
In contrast, there is an intense light that reveals in detail a form with which the viewer is confronted. A woman. She advances from the darkness and into the observer’s space, exposed to the gaze. Her origin, history, and intentions are as unknown as the shadows that surround her. Though she is on display, there is also a façade being raised: items adorn her; props and costumes allude to a performance that is being staged. She takes on different forms, materializing in a variety of ways that play to desire.
For every piece of information that is presented, another is withdrawn. I have set the scene, but as these two forces struggle, it is the audience’s own fantasies that remain. This woman, digging into the mind as much as the darkness that surrounds her, inhabits the arena of imagination and fills the space left after reason has run its course.