Summer Camp
This body of work is a collection of small allegorical paintings about an imaginary American summer camp. I’m interested in camp as a highly structured temporary settlement on the cusp of wild, unknowable nature. This split mindset allows me to take two very different approaches to the same subject. In camp, I look at social dynamics, games, violence, rule enforcement, injury, loss. I see it as a reflection of our larger world, but also as a means to process some of my own autobiography. When my figures wander outside of camp, unexplainable things happen to them- Enigmatic things like that of the occult. Summer camp exists as a point of transition between two different states, both geographically and temporally. Its a too-hot incubator. The accumulation of incidents is starting to feel like contemporary folklore.