In my work I am interested in exploring language and the way people communicate with each other. Language is a basic structure in all cultures and although it allows human beings to express their thoughts and ideas to others it is also extremely limiting. I often try to express the space beyond speech, where language fails us, and convey the ever frustrating feeling of being at a loss for words. While people search for the words to represent their ideas the world is constantly making advancements in our methods of communication from the Morse code to telephones and more recent advancements such as cell phones and video chat that allow us to communicate with opposite sides of the world. As the opportunity to communicate with more and more people expands I feel that our ability and desire diminish.
In our new age of technology we can communicate with almost whoever we want but I think that people are listening less and less. Conversations seem like more of an opportunity to state our point the loudest and when a response is being received the listener is already formulating a response. I think this inability to communicate with the already difficult issue of languages incompleteness can become extremely isolating and detrimental to the growth of new ideas. In my art I hope to express the importance of true communication and not just speaking. I want to make the viewer slow down and think about the way people express ideas to others and how listening with both our eyes and ears is still a necessity for the existence of true communication.
I use glass and photo to convey these ideas. Photography gives me the opportunity to directly represent the world around us while glass allows me to create my own expression of it. I use both together to express the seriousness of these ideas with humor in order to first draw the viewer in with comedy and then let them realize the underlying concept.
