ARTIST STATEMENT
This work investigates pictorial cliché and overabundance loosely within the structure of a classical still life or Vanitas painting. I consider myself a hoarder of images, and utilize repetitive labor to showcase this behavior. Obsession with food and the grotesque feature prominently in my depictions of cornucopia. Movie icons, politicians, pinups, sliced fruit, steaks, severed heads, Black Forest cakes, hams, flora and fauna are rendered and accumulated as an activity of my eating disorder and related social disaffection.