My studio practice is conceptually driven from my experiences as an artist and archaeologist. I make paintings and drawings, which are data based and follow appropriated scientific rules. Within archaeology, much of the important knowledge is gained through the detritus of past culture.  I focus on similar type of seemingly worthless material for subject matter; our pop culture, junk mail, and spectacle.

My painting and drawing processes involve employing all technologies, high and low. I fashion jigs to repeat tasks, use the computer to design and inform, and digital platforms and projections for end user interactivity.

Shiny and plastic like their subject of pop culture, the materials used in the paintings are metaphorically linked to the subject. Plastic represents not only the nature of the ever changing pop phenomena but also product endorsement or corporate logo. The painted surface is actually a hard aluminum panel sold commercially as sign board, teasing the notion that painting and science are connected as systems of signs.  My constructions range from tools to assist in the manufacturing of other art work, to models of the Earth  and Mars that reflect the expansion of American culture.

Super heroes, cartoons, sporting events, and vacation are ready made signs that handle complex universal ideas such as “truth” or "the real".  Vacations, specifically camping, condone the separation of nature from culture. This promotes the use of ideas such as natural and synthetic, real and unreal. This works to the same degree with theme parks; an intentional false reality in an actual location. Television transmits "live" or "true" representations which of course are not live but synthesized; this increases our tolerance for mediated and corporately funded truths.

These locations, events, and ideas will be the research ground for future social scientists. These innocuous aspects of pop culture are the fossilization of present beliefs and attitudes in respect to our time. The work also understands the importance of the art object as historical document. My archive then will have future importance for both science and art by quantifying and measuring this time.