Artist's Statement

Enslavement, cannibalism and godliness, words derived from the title of a '70s Italian exploitation film, are terms that describe three distinct modes of media consumption. They are also names I have given to strategies I employ in my explorations of the hidden or unnoticed ways television and film produces meaning.

Enslavement refers to enthrallment by visual and/or narrative continuity; cannibalism is the desire to devour images in response to the possibility of becoming all-knowing; and godliness is the experience of the power of media-granted omniscience. Such forces are embedded in the structure of media: in the blackness between scenes, in the barely noticed peripheral imagery, in the virtual spaces created around the viewer.

In my videos and digital images, I bring these elements out of the shadows and make them the subject matter of the work. My concern is to locate and protect the unmediated self in a world in which the media-reflected self is in a constant state of renovation and redefinition.