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My artistic work emerged from a fascination with the material process of making (and unmaking) things, which eventually led me to sculpture. I began working in film and video as an extension of my work in sculpture as I became increasingly interested in the relationships between formal elements as a source of meaning and tension. My first film was about the space between two characters in which a relationship emerges as a result of the interaction of their separate images. Once I started working with film I became fascinated by the basic illusion of movement which results from the relationship between similar still images projected in rapid succession. This fascination led to a series of works based on pre-existing (found) still images, such as travel postcards, which could be recontextualized in flip-book fashion to achieve a convincing illusion of movement while maintaining their status as autonomous stills. The tension between the still and moving image has become a persistent theme in my work aimed at activating a critical perception of certain aspects of pop culture defined by redundancy and consumption. While addressing these formal and critical issues, I aim for my work to be engaging, to recreate for the spectator a sense of wonder at seeing familiar images come to life in movement as if for the first time, while also opening a space for critical reflection on the nature and function of visual representation.