THE POINT OF VIEW

THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I make art to start conversations—not to finish them.

I am interested in the moment when an image stops being something you simply look at and becomes something you have to think about.

My work begins in different places: memory, history, music, culture, personal experience, humor, discomfort, contradiction, or a question I cannot leave alone. I do not expect every viewer to arrive at the same answer. In fact, I am more interested in what happens when they do not.

I want the viewer to look closer. Details matter. Context matters. What appears obvious at first may become less certain the longer you stay with the image. That tension—the distance between what we think we see and what may actually be there—is part of the work.

The stories behind the work matter to me because they change the way an image can be experienced. A drawing may begin with something personal, historical or imagined, but once it leaves my hands, the viewer brings something of their own to it.

I am less interested in telling people what to think than in giving them a reason to keep looking. If the image stays with you after you have walked away, the conversation is still happening.

For me, the experience is DAVID → ART → STORY → CONVERSATION.