Artist Statement

I create three-dimensional mixed media installations using dioramas embedded within full scale kiosk-like wood structures where viewers are invited into specifically designed vantages – intended to evoke an enigmatic experience. Utilizing the historical lineage of dioramas as institutional teaching tools I subvert this mode to create realistic visions of un-real scenarios.

My current work explores the tenuous co-existence between rational materialist world views and those that embrace all manner of anomalous phenomena – and whose interface often produces a sense of spatial and psychological disorientation. 

I experienced this state repeatedly throughout my early life – growing up in a Polish Catholic household in suburban New York state during the throes of the Cold War – where I was confronted daily with seemingly incompatible systems: the invisible supernatural world of angels, demons, hell, and looming apocalypses - versus the concrete physical reality of science, logic, and the senses. I find a striking and timely resonance with our current cultural moment where co-existent ‘truths’ struggle for primacy – yielding a nearly constant state of bewilderment and unease.