“Within art I like the nonsensicality of things, the ability to patch together abstract nothings into familiar yet off-putting assemblages of imagery. I once described myself as someone who tries to draw the essence of crustaceans lingering in the death of midsummer, because such a non-sentence could illustrate the vast ephemeral qualities of phenomenon in this world we can’t pinpoint with our limited understanding of forces beyond words within Earth’s many facets. There is too much of everything and not enough time to make sense of it all and that’s what my art and practice has always really been about.Regardless of the medium I explore these ideas with, be it traditional drawing, painting, printmaking, or sculpture, most of my creations evolve through experimentation, reflecting the spontaneity found within everyday life and my own haphazard memories of detailed, seemingly uneventful recollections. I aim to visualize my own cognitively temporal understanding of the world through its vibrant infinities of information that serenade the busy inner dialogues of my mind, making me want to tell stories through those unknown glyphics dancing like mercury. Through a heavy focus on illustrative, detailed ink drawing I seek to portray those symbolled thoughts as effectively and painstakingly as possible to create works that effectively demonstrate these abstract qualities in the world. At times the result is often disturbing and existentially worrying, usually resulting in my art coalescing into scenes of excess, violence, and suffering that wind up looking like the Hells of Hieronymus Bosch or Dante’s Divine Comedy, for much of the intangible is experienced through suffering at the mercy of being here at all.This approach to conveying my work is Inspired by the content I consume, such as the art movement of surrealism, psychological landscapes, music, liminal spaces, cinema, and the details present within objects. Inspired by these things, my process involves the intensive application of meticulous materials, be it black ink, acrylic paint, or straight up immortal plastic garbage, to create bizarre abstractions of stories surrounding visual entities or locations. Within this, I reflect upon elements of nostalgia for the strangeness I recollect of my own mundane existence and a longing for simplicity in the grinding violence of modern life. I portray surreal imagery that speaks about the 21st century condition and all the detritus found within the natural and human made environment. The microcosmos of a filthy Starbucks lid swarming with ants, or the macrocosmos of the early 2000s Ontario itself that seems farther away than the Belt of Orion since, unlike the past, that’s the living light of the future bombarding us. I’m all about those mundane, uncanny interludes of life, moments or objects becoming characters, living as the narrows between time and space. All this is poetry, and all this is nonsense and it’s funny and beautiful and sad in that way that we call art As artists we can energize these bodiless forces that bombarde us with inspiration, giving us an entire scope of personal or adjacent history to work from, mining our finite time into form that makes the passage of time rapidly contract and expand until we’ve lost and gained everything about ourselves in both mourning and celebration. It’s just funny and fleeting to think about how one day I was collecting insects from under rocks and playing Mario Kart Double Dash on the Nintendo GameCube and now I’m some random adult I’d never imagine myself being thinking about a potentially futureless world on the cusp of Armageddon. And that’s art, and there’s so much wonder to that because it is my art. I want to crystalize these elements of art as spontaneous moments into imagery and my entire life as an artist in this world is lived to learn and improve upon my capabilities of portraying this in the hope that one day I can create work that exists in physicality as clear as it was in my head amidst the intangible. Imagery coalesced from an above average capability to remember weird snippets of excess memories.In all of this as an artist I combat the knowledge that no matter how much I create, there will always be more ideas that I long to bring to life, visions that I ache to share with the world.And it is never enough.However, to be content with just creating itself gives me enough purpose to wish for others to enjoy what I do with my time. Above all else, I want people to escape within my work by looking up-close at all the intricacies and elaborate designs as if they were discovering hidden details within a massive search and find. I want the viewer to become absorbed in these bizarre detailed micro-universes that I use to communicate both the wonder and horror that exists within the uncanny of contemporary life.”