Artist Statement 2012

“Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.” - BBC News, “Science Decodes Internal Voices,” Jason Palmer, Jan. 31, 2012

i.e.

“Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of worlds into actual worlds.”
- misread by Kera MacKenzie, Feb. 10, 2012

My work focuses on going between mental and physical spaces and methods of describing those experiences.

My work focuses on bringing back evidence from imaginary landscapes.

My work focuses on finding or instilling thoughts in objects so that those thoughts can be touched.

My work focuses on writing origin stories for objects I don't understand, usually describing them as "from another world."

I use those objects as props and/or icons.

I put them in unresolved spaces and ask viewers to imagine the scenario(s) that occurred there.

I am drawn to spaces that force reflection, i.e. focus group rooms and sites of interrogation.

My work is presented as fragments from a larger inaccessible text that I wrote.

I haven't actually written it yet.

I'll write the script at the end.