My art practice is concerned with the digital ephemeral. The work I create, comprising primarily of print and paintings, are expressions of hyper aesthetic genres found in internet subculture. Hyper aesthetics, a term I use to describe the cumulative content I reference in my work, are groupings of objects and themes from the internet that share similar aesthetics. These hyper aesthetics can be linked by colour, type of object, or genre, and are defined by an aesthetic categorization. The hyper aesthetics that interest me are those that reside behind the screen and are intangible outside of assemblage in the physical realm.
The focus of my work is to capture these internet subcultures in a manner that both complements their essence and yet stays true my analogue (handmade) interpretations. I stubbornly recreate these fleeting aesthetic moments in oil paint, intaglio, acrylic and digital painting. Boiling down the internet into its purest iconographic forms and then straining it through the error of the hand, the aesthetic art object comes forth.