Kinship (2008 - 2018)

Nearly a century ago, Surrealist artists and writers understood that sparks could fly when unexpected objects and ideas collide. They drew inspiration from the idea of chance encounters, like the famous meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table. They used this technique of uncertain juxtapositions to dive beneath the surface of the physical world and explore cosmic questions of life and death and of love and desire, finding strange kinships in unlikely places.

In my diptych series Kinship, my paired images explore matter and mystery, with tiny sparks flying between them as they make contact.