Sometimes in the work, chaos reigns, and it is in our seeking for some order in the chaos that we find meaning. In my work, the word kobresia has taken on a personal meaning – it has come to represent work that is layered, organic, sometimes nuanced and subtle, sometimes obviously pointing out that which is often taken for granted – no matter the medium, whether it be film, theatre or visual arts. In some instances, this personal meaning of kobresia it is about a feeling or notion in its pure state, while defying the idea that all must be ordered or tidy.

My personal attachment to the word, the meaning is has taken on for me, and my experiments in this type of storytelling has strengthened my belief in the notion that the whole of a story is synergistic, more than the sum of its parts: story is the sum total of all elements the narrative draws on, regardless of the order of its telling.

The kobresia pieces are experiments in abstract, non-linear narrative and personal imagistic storytelling. My goal as an artist is to reflect the audience’s humanity back to itself by communicating and visualizing the fragile, subjective nature of memory and the notion that life and memory are ephemeral, fleeting, evanescent, transient, momentary, brief, and how it is all intrinsically and organically linked.