Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

‘While live-action film tends to represent what the physical eye sees’, I’m perhaps known for using experimental film, art and animation techniques to represent the mind’s eye. In that way I explore psychological and abstract ideas at the same time as telling emotional stories inspired from real life. I do this mostly through mixed media collage techniques to create characters and metaphysical worlds where narratives unfold.

My process is always playful, experimental and full of happy accidents which I use as essential starting points for my documentary, narrative and non-narrative stop motion films made physically by hand. Recent works of art outside of film & TV commissions explores the visualization of music. Abstract lines found in nature to evoke meaning and connected narratives about migration. Visualizing memories, both joyous and traumatic experience. I’m always trying to make the ‘invisible visible’, so we can connect with each other in meaningful ways.

While At Headlands

In direct response to Headlands and the surrounding bay area, my aim is to investigate a sense of place, cultural identity and memory as seen from the point of view of everyday objects typically taken for granted and eventually discarded. Broken and rebellious objects out of context, free and beyond their objective reality and transformed by chance meetings in surprising ways.

I will investigate themes of wellbeing, empathy and community using discarded objects as characters to create situations and psychological spaces. Societal themes of interconnected circumstances that drives and leads to homelessness will be explored through the animated lives of objects in site-specific locations.

In collaboration and involvement of people with lived experiences, my aim is to highlight the unseen lives of homeless people living on the streets in extreme circumstances and more importantly, the inner strength and resilience it takes for people to rebuild lives and reintegrate into communities.