Site Mission

The strength and joy of my work is often in the resulting dialogue - yet many of my peers, audiences and collaborators aren’t aware of one another. With this site, I hope to get more of my work in more conversation with more people.

I’m an artist trained in materially-based craft traditions - painting, drawing, photography. I’ve since exchanged these sets of constraints for others; in fact, my work is constantly in search of new constraints.

This pursuit has taken me through multiple disciplines and forms. I’ve rarely stopped along the way to explore a particular medium or context for long. Only recently have I begun to recognize this path as potentially right and intentional, rather than as a weakness and a fault.

I’ve decided to cautiously explore a deliberately “unfixed” approach to the question of where the fruits of my labor should live in the world. To me, “unfixed” implies the potential for an eventual or momentary fix or fit. To remain unfixed isn’t to refute the potential goodness of stasis or landing - fixation is inevitable, but some of us have the privilege of choosing where to stop the process.

In the end I’m not interested in pushing any one area or field “forward.” I do, however, believe in the necessity of imagining a particular audience and a particular field of reference in order to bring a project to some degree of resolution. I’m also interested in what happens when the inhabitants and supporters of one field are confronted with the approaches or even the mere existence of another. So this website will serve as a place to try out small parts of my large projects in slightly more resolved forms.

Complex Fields is a good way of describing how I seek to let my projects land in multiple and simultaneous settings and audiences.

Complex Fields is also the name of an outdoor athletic field facility near my home and work.

Competitive sports never took for me, though I was always told they would be good for my mind.