Currently my work revolves around The Sporozoan a word used metaphorically to describe the serendipitous moment of seeing, which tempts us all to look just a little bit more closely. The Sporozoan encompasses all of the current work. I have slowly broken it apart and reconstructed it into a theatrical installation that includes sculptural objects, paintings, prints, performances, fashion, online applications and its viewers.
My primary focus in 2011 was constructing a free-floating structural paper mass called The Sporozoan Swarm. Built from the remnants of unused intaglio prints and using both machine and hand made steel pins to mount it The Swarm is an ever changing, site specific, modular piece. The Swarm’s origins rise from my drive to create. In 2008 I moved across country to land in Seattle where trapped in the financial downward spiral like so many, with all my materials in storage and no place to work I refused to stop making art. When an empty wall in a local shop called I followed my passion and began to create with what I had: a portfolio full of prints. Tearing paper until my hands ached I put up the first incarnation of The Sporozoan Swarm.
Unemployed at the time I barraged the city of Seattle and soon had locations for two other installs. Through an online assault using Flickr, Twitter and FaceBook I grew interest in The Swarm. Two years later it has been installed in over 15 locations including two permanent installs and two semi-permanent installs. In March of 2011 he traveled to the SXSW conference in Austin, TX to give a presentation revolving around its birth and growth.
I see my future ebbing and flowing much like The Sporozoan Swarm flows through spaces. The next step for The Swarm involves integrating poured pigmented resin, light and sound into The Swarm to create work with a resounding theatrical quality.