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     An inter-disciplinary artist increasingly curious about the relationships between color, composition, pace and place, I’ve spent the last couple of years staking out a new path for myself by embracing animation, special effects, and interactive software into my creative process. Initially triggered by personal loss and the subsequent weariness over adding more objects to a society already stuffed to the rim, my past as a painter led me to the exploration of time-based media with a particular interest in digital stop-motion animation. To that effect, my latest body of work is best understood as animated paintings. 

     Despite being digitally born and created with a video camera and numerous computer software, these pieces embody the desire to make aesthetics trump medium; not an uncommon artistic undertaking, but one that can be swayed, and sometimes temporarily derailed by mistaken assumptions that equalize animation with entertainment, or insist that digital art by default must be based on (f)actual research or information dissemination. Instead, my animated paintings exist as individual works: abstract and mostly silent, they are investigations of chromatic calibration in motion. The creative process behind each piece rests solidly on an aesthetic calculation where color and composition together form the X-axis to the Y-axis of pace that in turn relate to the Z-axis of scale. And just as in my public projects, these polychromatic and deliberately paced pieces are intended to be experienced on a scale that takes the distinct characteristics of each screening location into account; ideally creating a dialogue with existing functions, histories, and physical structures.