"The genius of Newton, of Shakespeare, of Michel Angelo, and of Handel, are not very remote from each other. Imagination, as well as the reason, is necessary to perfection in the philosophic mind." Humphry Davy, early 19th century chemist and inventor Preceding the emergence of modern science in the mid-19th century, and along with it the categorization and professionalization of scientific study, intellectuals like Humphry Davy pursued a broad, often idiosyncratic and subjective exploration within what was then termed natural philosophy: an elastic, multifaceted examination of the physical universe that fused the scientific with the aesthetic, the objective and the subjective, the rational and the emotional. This superficially less ordered—but arguably more comprehensive and holistic—intellectual attitude of the natural philosopher offers a useful model for my artistic practice, which is one of investigation, intuition, and connection. Drawing from the natural world and our study thereof, my artwork variously includes diagrammatic drawings, reproductions of scientific documentation, reorganized cartography, recreations of historical and contemporary scientific experimentation, as well as renderings of microscopic, seismic, cosmic and satellite imagery. My methods range accordingly from the impulsive through the procedural, from the rudimentary through the technologically sophisticated.

The preoccupation with informational data (as well as the deconstruction and reorganization thereof) reflects my own fundamental impulse to both understand my environment in the most conventionally factual way, while simultaneously embracing its poetic complexity and subjectivity.