Language has been the focus of my recent art, language as text and image as language. Often, the images and texts come directly or slightly modified from highly recognizable cultural sources, each with an immediate connotation of meaning. The interest of my art is an investigation into the relationships between text as image and image as text.  The process of this investigation involves breaking down the hierarchical relationships between text and image. Instead of privileging one over the other, I use them as equal, insistent conveyors of meaning.
           

Once these boundaries become more indistinguishable, the structures that once held meaning become unstable as territorial distinctions between text and image become vague and inconstant, compounding and confounding the notions of a stable sign.
           

My work can take on many different forms in support of the interpretation of an individual piece. Just as it operates in the genres of art without being confined to the image my work can equally function in the realm of poetic language, while not being confined to text. By shifting the privilege of text as meaning and by disabling the reading of an image, I hope to open further investigations into issues of identity, power, and the manufacture of meaning.