I work primarily in the area of time-based art (sound, video, live performance and digital media). There is an immediacy inherent in live performance and time-based works that I find compelling. This immediacy creates a distinctive reciprocal connection with the viewer. I references live music, film, dance and theater in my work, using common technologies and formats. Initially, my works may seem familiar, however, the works do not resolve in a familiar manner. Through the duration of the work, the role of the viewer moves from being passively entertained to witnessing to a foreign event. It is important to me when I create a work to consider the viewer as an active witness, one whose own imagination is limitless and capable of moving beyond the mere suggestions of the piece.

I was trained in the area of classical opera, dance, theatre and musical composition. The learning and performance of these methodologies informed my work greatly, however it is important for me to expose and de-construct these methods, rather than use them to create works similar to mainstream performing arts. Oftentimes the very exposure of these methods creates a metaphor and directs the work's subject matter. With the artifice of the performance exposed the work is freed from its heavy handed entertainment based delivery. Instead of the performer emoting for the audience or replacing their experience with a simulated one, it seeks to engage them in the present moment, connecting them to their own creative discovery.