Using my own voyeuristic perspective, my practice explores how much I project my own ideas of identity and escapism onto both the people I know and strangers I spy on among the crowd. Subverting the comforts of reality by wrangling a sense of verisimilitude out of stylized scenes, I seek to disjoint and confuse with rich amalgams of traditional and new mediums.

Starting with my personal photography archives, including moments with friends and events where I perform as a fly on a wall, I simulate the strange re-contextualization, aesthetic distortion and abstraction that occur in translating another person's sense of identity within contemporary society. Meanwhile, I look to Surrealism, the history of Impressionism, mass culture and other methods of stealing reality for my own means, including a method of stealing aesthetic artifacts via photo-to-3D model rendering.

My final products are results of combining virtual abstractions and recognizable physical motifs like building blocks, displaying the fantastic and surreal scenes formed by the collision of one identity into another.

54th Annual Voertman’s Student Competition
April 8–26, 2014
UNT Art Gallery; Denton, TX

53rd-Annual Voertman’s Student Competition
April 10-25, 2013
UNT Art Gallery

“Ebb & Flow: a watercolor exhibition”
Nov 18-22, 2013
UNT Cora Stafford Gallery

52nd-Annual Voertman’s Student Competition
April 10-28, 2012
UNT Art Gallery

Scholarship Recipient Exhibition
April 8-12, 2012
UNT Art Building Lightwell Gallery

Mural collaboration
permanent
Kerr Cafeteria. UNT Denton Campus