U Kill Me

“I grew up on a house boat in Portland, Oregon. I’ve lived primarily on the West Coast in San Francisco and Seattle before moving to Marfa, Texas. I ended up moving to Marfa to work with the Chinati Foundation and their internship program in arts education and public programs. My move here was also my response to an internal need – I wanted to experience a new landscape with a different scale, both geographically and socially. I’ve lived here for six months and am staying indefinitely. Living in Marfa has allowed me to investigate my visual language against the backdrop of the West Texas desert. The Chinati Foundation internship experience has informed my visual language greatly. Being able to live and work intimately at a #museum is a very different experience. I’ve been very inspired by Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, because of the way the works respond and interact with light, reflections, and shadows… Living in a #remote place, I feel like I can visually solidify my images clearly, since there is less visual noise than you would get in a city. Visual noise is great too, but sometimes I feel like it can be distracting for me. I want frame and shoot more controlled or simply…”

-UO Blog

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