Artist Statement
My latest series “Communication
Architecture” is drawn from my previous career as a network
technician. Of particular interest to me was Samuel Morse, who was
hailed as one of the great inventors of the 19th century; a time when
artists and inventors had more in common than they do now. He began his
career as an artist and was a professor at New York University in 1834.
After failing to achieve notoriety for his artwork, and with an
intimate knowledge of new technologies like the Daguerreotype, he would
go on to invent the telegraph. I’m motivated by this curiosity
for modes of communication. Influenced by a working class experience in
telephony I like to look at the physical realities that transmit
information: a crowded telco closet, a jacked up cable line or a person
having a conversation using text messaging. These events inspire me to
create works that ask viewers to examine the nature of communication.