Juxtapose 2006 - ongoing
Two-colour serigraphs — 15 x 15

Since I began printmaking, my work has employed a sense of minimalism in its design and execution. In my latest series, Juxtapose, minimalism is evident in the lack of exposition. Unlike traditional printmaking, which layers pigment upon a white surface to "illuminate" the subject, my compositions literally grow from the shadows.

Each composition presents a scenario which requires a certain amount of interpretation by the viewer. The foreground and background characters create a potential scenario which can only be interpreted by each person's reality, which, ultimately, is based on his or her own biases and filters used to sum up the world around them. As a result, where one person sees a composition or conflict, another may interpret the scene as whimsical. In my own experience, I have encountered countless individuals who have made incorrect assumptions about me based merely on the visual language I spoke through my personal image and body language.

This kind of Consensus Reality is scarcely more than the social conscience of the cultural majority, in most cases. Reality, for most, is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist. By creating compositions which juxtapose two disparate elements which, on their own might seem innocuous enough, I challenge the viewer to explore their own philosophical approach to each print by assuming the role of narrator in the story.