Major: Visual Arts, Film Studies Minor
Year: Third
“I am an upstate N.Y. artist, hailing from Binghamton, New York, where I am surrounded by the beauty of run down buildings, porno shops and a serious lack of culture. I primarily work in collage and enjoy using imagery from LIFE magazine to fill unwanted books. It’s an old habit, using books as paper, that sort of stems from a limited income and convenience of used books. I was drawn to collage work because the materials I use can be found by anyone, so, in a sense anyone can be artistic. I enjoy working with taboo and supernatural themes and I draw influence from photographer Joel Peter Witkin and painter Edvard Munch. I am often more inspired by film than other areas of fine art, specially the films of Ingmar Bergman, Fritz Lang, John Waters and silent horror films such as ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ and ‘Vampyr.’”
