I have been interested in the growing phenomenon of Internet web cams for a couple of years now. The proliferation of exhibitionists on the web has allowed for a new paradigm in terms of self-representation. Unlike former objectifications of the figure, these images are produced, edited and exhibited by the subjects depicted within them. I appropriate images from these web sites, to make art works that raise questions about sexuality and desire, exhibitionism and voyeurism, private vs. public space, and queer representation. I am critically engaged with throwing into question the relationships between the different subjects/exhibitionists, the artist, and the viewer at different stages in the production of these images.

The discursive site of the work opens up issues beyond identity politics and desire, including High Modernism, the aesthetics of the grid, and pattern and decoration. I am interested in subverting the abstract and "objective" format of the grid by re-inserting desire and the body onto the structure. For example, the Rug pieces combine an opposition between the abstract grid implicit in Islamic rug design and figuration. The use of repetition inherent in patterning creates a visual effect that mirrors the psychological state of desire. I am interested in presenting a critical artistic practice of artist as decorator, while questioning the stereotype.