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MORE IS MORE is my current project, a collection of paintings and drawings revolving around the ideas of obsession, addiction, consumption and overstimulation. This project is based on real life products, and using them as a barometer of capitalism - what we will do to make a buck, what we will purchase with that buck. Mostly, this series becomes about obsession- what we become obsessed to buy, what as artists we become obsessed to make, or do. It is about the complete barrage of over-stimuli we are confronted with on a daily basis, and how we deal with that overstimulation. Appliances are organized into their areas of use, creating hazardous rooms overfilled with products designed to make our lives easier, but blocking the essential function of the room in which they are housed. A bed is so filled with massagers, loungers, pillows, alarm clocks and stress relieving devices, that the actual bed is completely denying its basic function, to allow rest. The kitchen is stacked with so many singular functioned appliances that movement is basically impossible, let alone cooking. A collection of Art is all crammed into one wall, assaulting the viewer with a plethora of positive and inspirational messages that it becomes frightful. Whether we are driving on the street, in the market, on the internet, or watching TV, we are confronted by layer upon layer of intersecting ads, sounds, and visuals, each begging for our attention, and ultimately our purchase. All of these environments I have created become an emulation of this phenomenon what we see in the public world, but bring it into our personal space. PLEASE NOTE: Most of these works, particularly the paintings, are not finished. 
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