Human history is filled with a visual symbolic language. This language of images has developed throughout the millennia and has survived in the relics and artifacts of all great civilizations.  My work employs the use of this icon inheritance. By juxtaposing the iconic symbols such as egg, fire, seeds, water … in layers and collages a narrative of concepts is created, a process not unlike stringing words together into a verse.

Digitypes have become one of my main media for the creation of my artwork and installations. The Digitype is a mixed-media print created by a process I invented. The main tool as the name implies is digital photography. The name which I adapted from the Daguerreotype, one of the earliest forms of photography and which the Digitype has a strong visual relationship with; though, the Digitype is not constricted by scale and is not photosensitive.

Intrigued by the notion of engaging all human organs of perception I incorporate other elements into the artwork that can bring it out of the second dimension (purely visual) and into the third dimension with objects, substances, and sound. The objects are organic, sensual and demand being touched such as fur, feathers, flowers… the substances are liquid organic such as blood, milk, honey… and both the objects and the substances may evoke the olfactory sense. The sound element is the final touch and though conceptualized by me it is produced in collaboration with other artists.

Heavily influenced by the idea of memory and history, a chronology or timeline is always implied in the art work; though, it may be pointing to an underlying cyclical truth like the process of life and death. In turn this cyclical reality influences another facet of my art work which I believe to be more obscure or subtle; that is, my use of hidden rituals. These rituals are performed during the mounting of an exhibition and in maintaining the installation space. The rituals are simple and without ceremony, they involve filling, emptying, cleansing and refilling of vessels