ABOUT ME

“Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave with a box of scraps!” (Iron Man 2008).

The main concept of my artwork focuses on world building and industrialization of an alternative universe from my perspective. Throughout the course of my life, I have had a fascination with machines depicted in pop culture from Star Wars, Lego-Bionicle, Transformers, etc. I work in collage and digital art with my materials ranging from clip art, shopping advertisements, coloring books, etc. I take my work inspired by pop culture to fabricate them into fine art posters and graphic art prints using screen printing adding more to the industrial process. Expanding further beyond that, I forge machine sculptures out of scraps of cardboard coated in collage prints. My automatons are built to expand on my world of 2D creations into 3D giving those scraps life and a greater purpose. One artist I take inspiration from is Andy Warhol, a man whose goal was to be a machine to achieve repetition, reproduction, and industrialization. His reason behind his unoriginal work of turning existing objects and aspects, “Because it’s easier to do.” I strive to achieve that similar machine aesthetic not just within my work but with myself to become a machine. With these practices I can streamline like a nonstop assembly line cranking out prints fast and efficiently. I am an artist who desires to ditch flesh for metal to go beyond and not be bound to the limits of a human. I will hand my flesh over to be an image of man and machine with a new world to be born from the two. I am, “The Mechanized Artist.”