I have an overwhelming interest in humanity as expressed through micro synthesized physical consistency and variation. I focus on the undesirable, such as wrinkles on the face, the texture of the tongue, and blemishes on the skins surface. Recognizable landscapes, human or otherwise, merge, inducing a convergence of perception. The process is expressed through meditational transformation, like life itself, and might remain in a state in fluctuation. I paint overlapping layers to imbue a sense of motion and texture. As the layers build up, the figure is obscured behind the details, allowing the whole of the painting to be highlighted at a glance or as a gesture.

The video shows two men playing chess; Radovan Karadzic and Radco Mladic, the psychiatrist and the general. Silence is interrupted by a voice with a heavy accent. Karadzic is a psychiatrist, a poet and the former Bosnian Serb leader. Mladic is a general and the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army. The two men together are accused of having designed and ordered most of the atrocities that took place in Bosnia. The video juxtaposes classic war strategy, greed and vanity with consequences in reality by suggesting horror through denial.

With a striking resemblance to Soviet propaganda, two of these three black and white movies of the 30s, trying to provide a humanized vision to mass production. The third, "Valley Ode" is a look at a depressed town in the steel industry, showing the dark side of capitalism.

California Company Town deals predominantly with the landscapes of 14 towns created and then abandoned by the industries that created them. The film contemplates the idea of the American landscape as historical and political space and the gaps between the ideology and reality of the spaces in which we live. History is always marked upon the land; a state whose very geography has been radically reconfigured to serve specific use. While sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its beginning, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and state interests. My work is associative, combining personal memory with the supposed objectivism of history, thus questioning both. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time. The reality of our world was born out of very specific moments and choices, a construction that is neither organic nor inevitable. The film is shot on 16mm, and the use of film itself is of central importance, as it documents time within space, the way history hangs in our experience or image and light. The haunted loss of the American promise is tangible in the material of both the towns themselves, and the film that documents them.

California Company Town deals predominantly with the landscapes of 14 towns created and then abandoned by the industries that created them. The film contemplates the idea of the American landscape as historical and political space and the gaps between the ideology and reality of the spaces in which we live. History is always marked upon the land; a state whose very geography has been radically reconfigured to serve specific use. While sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its beginning, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and state interests. My work is associative, combining personal memory with the supposed objectivism of history, thus questioning both. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time. The reality of our world was born out of very specific moments and choices, a construction that is neither organic nor inevitable. The film is shot on 16mm, and the use of film itself is of central importance, as it documents time within space, the way history hangs in our experience or image and light. The haunted loss of the American promise is tangible in the material of both the towns themselves, and the film that documents them.

Six educational films of the 50s and 60s face sex. It's all a matter of pipes: "The sperm is half the man in a baby," says one teenager. Other films associate sex with crime and decay: there is danger for the unwary ("Judy had done nothing wrong, just was neglected) and we must be careful because homosexuals prey on the innocent ("Jimmy didn´t know that Ralph was sick, he had a sick mind ...").