Artist statement 

The imagery throughout my art is influenced by film and media. I am intrigued by the credence that photography and film give to imagery. As a documentary format, the photograph is real and truth, so we associate media imagery as the preconceived and understood standard, the "model". In art I model and create environments, dioramas, that are choreographed scenes. These scaled representations are voyeuristic by nature, allowing a look from outside, that is real but also toy-like and faux. The work creates a cinematic-like image that is narrative or suggests a story based upon our preconceived idea of what has happened, is happening, or will happen next. The individual interpretation, the perception of the image narrative, the decision to view the image as a cliffhanger or mundane, is culturally based on the standards of our film and media.