Central to my artistic practice are the themes of Exploration, Discovery and Connection. 

EXPLORATION

Through exploration, guests / participants / audience members are encouraged to take an active role in experiencing a piece. This can be stimulated by means of special instructions on how to interact with a responsive system or by a certain spatial design that encourages a specific set or type of behaviors. Pillows can be made available to encourage people to lie down, for instance. A piece could have multiple components spread across a room (or series of rooms) with multiple points of entry to encourage movement and a non-linear experience. 

DISCOVERY

While exploring a piece, audience members are guided to make discoveries for themselves without being explicitly led to any particular phenomena. The use of Easter eggs rewards those who spend more time and go deeper into a piece. These can be crafted as actual physical objects as well as sweet spots in an interactive system. These sweet spots have a fraction of a percentage of occurring in the amount of time an average museum visitor might spend with a piece – again rewarding those for whom the work resonates the most.

CONNECTION

The context in which my work is presented is designed to encourage audience members to make a connection between their discoveries and something larger than themselves. This is usually framed with a question. For instance, “What is the creative force of the Universe?” or, “What latent innate qualities might exist among humans?” 

Framing a piece with a question empowers an audience member to extend the application of their discovery to serve a greater understanding of their own relationship to larger concepts of identity, consciousness, environment and community. It also serves to compel people to spend more time with a piece.