There is the Beach, There is the Ocean

My work investigates our complex cultural relationship with Nature a capital "N", in particular the fantasy of tropical space: collage impressions and desires which ossify into psychological 'elsewhere' that is fact no place at all. By making images simultaneously trigger violate romantic tropes, I attempt to reverse gaze tourist back onto itself. This essay describes process by became age six, year found my father’s heart-attacked body on kitchen floor. early experience mortality, coupled yearly family trips beach, created representational code now out poetic relationships desire loss.