I am a multi-media artist who is interested in how signs and symbols are used to shape cultural narratives that act to exclude people from the mainstream. I use the tools and aesthetics of mass communication to critique how these cultural structures are utilized for this marginalization. Growing up in an economically and racially segregated suburb in rural north central Pennsylvania I struggled with the outsider status that I had been assigned as a result of not fitting into other people’s idea of what I should be. This feeling of powerlessness made me acutely aware of how others find themselves marginalized. It is my intention with this work to explore how the value and meaning placed upon images, icons and language relates to notions of identity. Ultimately, I hope to illuminate how the way in which we assign value to visual objects determines who is excluded from the stories we tell.
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