My work examines the unpredictability, tension and trauma of military life from personal experience as veteran and spouse of an active duty combat soldier. Taking inspiration from artists of postwar Material Realism as well as Cubism, I continue the dialogue of the relationship between destruction and creation, concerning the picture plane and the image.

I work both with destroying images indicative of the military tattoo subculture and with material intrinsically associated with destruction, such as the intestines of animals traditionally used for sausage preparation.  The visually contrasting bodies of work thematically unite in a new space causing contention and anxiety.  A chaos of opposing styles and material disunity, the space is volatile and unsolved, an attempt to communicate the collateral of constant war in a society consistently unstable.