Artist Statement
The work depicts various settings and the interaction of the inhabitants
with each other and the environment. The narratives of the work are based
upon common archetypes seen in entertainment and news media along
with our expectations of the situations derived from the media images.
Illustrating the odd subtleties of the everyday iconographic image that have
been engraved in our imagination. The subject matter being criticized but
adored at the same point, these images are recreated with reverence in a
perfect model world. The use of the diorama allows a critical perspective of
the viewer, allowing the viewer to separate himself or herself from the subject,
through the god-like perspective that a scale model permits. The model
imagery is a sort of faux realism, appearing real is a mass-produced
manufactured plastic scale replica painted and photographed to appear real,
directly correlating with a stereotype as a representation. The mass-produced
model is, in and of itself, the media stereotype being a generalized scale
representation of the world it represents.