​ARTIST STATEMENT​

 

I am interested in how cinema translates words from the page to the screen, and how I can then convert the film still into a painting that can be reinserted into its source material.

 

I've been exploring end-of-era themes found in films such as "The Misfits," a 1960s anti-western/western film written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston, starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift over the past decade because it allows me to explore fading archetypes, loneliness, displacement, loss, bravery, and exploitation.

 

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