When I reflect on how technology is so intertwined with life, I get both excited and nervous. The digital landscape is constantly evolving. Digital technology has had a profound impact on my daily life. In many ways it has made life much easier, but it has also created significant societal dilemmas. My work endeavors to bring these pressing issues to the forefront, in the hope that we, as a society, can begin to address them.
Marshall McLuhan stated, “Technology is just not a happenstance and not just something that got there when nobody was noticing and so, we are responsible for our technologies and the effects of our technologies, as we are responsible for tidying up our grammar.”
The privacy we all once shared has been rapidly eroded over time. Cameras now lurk everywhere, and are impossible to avoid. Technology has changed our perception of the world as our real and digital worlds converge. Our lives are so interwoven with technology that it seems to exist as an extension of our identity. My work embodies the representation of the figure juxtaposed with color, data glitches, and digitally corrupted signals. I paint these narrative works with oil on canvas. It is through my love for figurative painting with which I present these issues.