As the Internet increases our dependence on imagined and parallel worlds, the disparity between reality and fiction continues to diminish. Our attachment to mass media and communications has enabled us to access a wealth of information and imagery that has perhaps diluted our sensitivity to the real. My work seeks to explore how we might make sense of this by creating new spaces where different structures can coexist; spaces that might allow us to return to a place of pleasure, fantasy and childhood combined with a place that emphasizes the problems of the real world.

I wonder how we can engage people if we are simultaneously presenting them with the very means they use for disengagement?  I am particularly interested in combining and displacing narrative threads, as well as merging extremes in order to rationalize our constantly changing environment and perception. By mixing documentary and imagined worlds I hope to construct scenes that can perhaps allow the observer to discover something about the ambiguous and unpredictable world we live in by showing them the real alongside a fiction that allows them to (dis)connect into something other.

Virtual space has become an integral part of our lives and as the advancement of new media continues our connection with the physical is increasingly compromised.