My work addresses my explorations of Identity and Fragmentation. Using my background as both an art auctioneer and art historian, blending that with my ambitions to be an artist-educator, I explore the differing approaches to knowledge acquisition from the perspective of these disparate roles, using the multiple, shifting personalities of my various types of footwear.  I attempt to express the objectification – the abstract concept of identity within a fashioned framework of footwear.

I have used photography and video montage to examine the different entangled layers, the embedded levels and the fragmented forms of identity.  I have also conducted participatory exercises incorporating other people whose personal interpretations delineate their identities through their selected choice of footwear.

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I use philosophical hermeneutics (Gadamer, et. al., 2004) and the radical hermeneutics of  Derrida (1976) to explore both my pedagogical practice and my theatrical auctioneer performances.

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All my work and the assorted areas of the website are divided into thirds.  There are three types of photo imagery - still life, composite and blended.  There are three video montages - performance, narrative and participatory explorations.  These all speak to my three identifying roles - Artist/Researcher/Educator.