Muslim Neighbor

Memory and identity play an important role in my choices as I try to reconcile aesthetics with process.  For example, the act of tracing text is like primitive mark-making; it has purpose regardless of what it says or how it looks.  I am creating, I am human. Psychogeographical writer Iain Sinclair once said, “If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.” Finding “self” in an increasingly cybernetic world is an existential dilemma.  Who is my avatar? I tweet, therefore I am. –Artist statement