Artwork
My early artwork explores the relationship of photographic images to visual culture as a sociocultural dialogue. I take a critical view of social, political and cultural issues and use familiar visual signs and metaphors. As a result, my artwork over the years has moved from traditional media (photography, printmaking, and painting) to a more conceptual model, such as installation and mix media sculpture where disrupting traditional forms offers an opportunity to explore contemporary themes such as communication and identity.
Art, technology, and pedagogy offer spaces for cultural critique and social innovation and opens valuable questions. In a multimodal, multisensory, techno cultural world what will the role of the aesthetic experience be in opening other registers or forms of learning? For me, art, like the pedagogy is magical, in its insightful, artful, and playful approach to inner ways of knowing as learning through art transforms my relationship to my selves, events, objects, ideas, and people. For me as an artist and pedagogue the goal is to not only to visualize a better education, but as a provocateur to arouse a desire for one. That is to generate those hard to answer questions that set urgent, difficult, and wicked challenges in motion, so we can all act.
