My work is an endeavor to capture my experiences and thoughts on post-modern

life and translate them to a visual query. I feel most engaged with work when it is in

a public environment in which I can engage viewers that are not commonly patrons

and consumers of fine art. The experiences I have had wherein I could talk with and

receive automatic feedback from the community have been some of the most fulfilling

interactions I have had as an artist. Being given the opportunity to serve the public

through my art is at once humbling and a great honor.

I grew up in Robinson, Texas a small town outside of Waco. I spent half my time in the

ample fields and forests that were there to play in and the other half of my time was spent

watching television and later on playing video games. This duality has defined the inner

push and pull of my life’s experience. Lusting continually for the forest or the City. It is

the difference between swimming in Barton Creek and surfing the internet. This back and

forth pulls me from the natural world to the built environment continually. I am 31 years

old and have spent half of my life in Robinson and the other half in Austin. I long for the

vibrant city and the people and the ideas but I need the calm of the woods and the rush

of the creeks and the way your muscles feel after a days work or hiking through the hill

country.

The juxtaposition of my love for the natural and the architecture of the built

environment causes me to constantly question both. These loves can compliment each

other at times, but more often than not, are at odds. The City is hungry and the developers

constantly gobble up more and more land to continue growth. The fields I ran through

with my dog and my younger sister as a child do not exist any more and the woods that I

used to play in have likely burned in the many fireplaces of the hundreds of spec homes

that have popped up all around my parent’s little acre of property in the last 15 years. I

want clean air but the gasoline that I use to power my truck is so precious. All of these

questions that come up on a daily basis have nowhere to go but into my work because

I don’t have answers to them. I feel like all of this personal struggle is actually pretty

common, and especially in this city, pretty generic. That is why I want to use my work to

publicly ask these questions. I need help to get to the answers and though I don’t know if

I will find them (or if any of us will), I do believe it is important to ask.