As we walk through life we experience the "outside"
world inside ourselves. Our eyes bring to us the images of this
outside world we call reality. Our common sense then dictates
our comprehension and reaction. We are grounded within reason,
habit, association, and familiarity. Our sense of reality rests
on the familiarity of experience. The familiarity of everyday
things are, to some degree, familiar by way of their context.
The re-contexualization of commonplace objects creates an unfamiliar,
altered reality. When two images, both lacking their original
experience, are placed next to one another a new, unknown context
is constructed.
In my work I am taking a reality from one context and placing
it next to one from another context. The juxtaposition of these
commonplace localities gives birth to an unidentifiable actuality.
Thought and rationality do not allow us to be comfortable with
the depiction of daily life out of their places. We are so accustomed
with the individual elements in terms of their context that the
struggle between knowledge and reason does not allow us to accept
their altered existence on a physical level or as a truth.
Artist Statement