ARTIST STATEMENT

I am fascinated by the practice of kerning type. Kerning is the process of adjusting the space between individual letters in a piece of text. Competent kerning hinges the individual letters into a cohesive and legible word. It is a process of locating and shifting/destabilizing the word’s individual letters and in effect dissolving and reconstituting its coherence as a symbol. The word meaning becomes its components--    m   e   a   n   i   n   g   --and for the life of me I can no longer see it as meaning.

Similarly, my new work delineates a liminal space in which the legibility of the video is simultaneously symbolic and poetic. In span, two trucks trace a circuit between the port and the museum, linking two institutions which import and distribute goods and ideas.  Span challenges the cohesion of these sites by introducing multiple points of observation and the formal conventions of popular media.