The visual vocabulary of my art comes from the language of maps. The decision to fashion art out of map symbols is ironic because maps and art are formed of the same fundamental elements.

The theoretical basis of my approach is defamiliarization: presenting something as both recognizable and foreign. It is engaged by 1) using map symbols outside the reference of maps, 2) synthesizing historically and culturally disparate map symbols, and 3) placing the symbols in formats that have an alternate system of meaning.