I am Magritte’s offspring, a nuclear side-effect of surrealism. Instead of painting a pipe, I use an actual pipe and claim it not to be one. The object itself, more dominant in its real presence, becomes an emphatic signifier of what it connotes. I create bizarre semiotic texts by juxtaposing objects and materials that are not meant to be, in a way that is not meant to be. Displaced from their original context, they come from the world of things to communicate the world of ideas.
The abundance of commodities and objects as well as the state of being that art has entered, have created the circumstances for a self-sustained conceptual art where objects, upgraded from a mere commodity status, become the palette. Subject matter is drawn from philosophy, linguistics, culture and the decadence of contemporary society. Semiotic play is utilized to construct these visual poems.
My primary concern is the conceptual at its attempt to become critical; the physical is treated as secondary, lightweight, unpretentious or dematerialized. The objects that compose my installations enter into a signification play with each other as they endlessly strive for meaning domination. I throw them into a conceptual arena and you watch them fight each other. In the end, it is up to you, the audience, to launch them into a career of metaphor, off into the realm of your imagination.