My work recontextualizes memories by deconstructing ready made images and reconstructing them into original illustrations. While working in commercial screen printing, I became interested in transparent films. Working with transparencies and the process of registration opened up a new way to look at my own art; seeing forms in multiple layers. Leftover from previous print jobs, these films contained logos and commercial designs that I envisioned broken down into abstract shapes, lines and textures. By using the pieces of the deconstructed design I take a part of the whole and rearrange them into new compositions.
A key component of my process is collage. This process involves me cutting and pulling pieces together, dissecting one image to create another. The image is no longer exact, it has been dismembered, only few parts of it remain recognizable to show that the original idea of the image is never gone completely. Along with collage I use illustrations and repetitive mark-making to create unique forms, and textures. Within my drawings are city life, animals, depictions of youth and violence. Bridging illustration and screenprinting together allows me to be expressive in a medium that I only saw as a means to an end in creating a product, but now it is a way to express my ideas and thoughts.