research overview
- My mixed-media animation and film making practice re-imagines documentary as an entirely subjective form. I see reality itself as a subjective concept generated in the mind and projected outwardly from us rather than gathered into us by our senses. I use animation to represent the landscapes, characters, and events of this constructed reality which defines my work as a kind of subjective documentary. Taking the process of making animation seriously has allowed me to find meaning through making. Truthful communication through an inherently illusionist form offers a medium with the basic contradictions necessary to present meaning in art that genuinely represents our reality.