One of the most powerful forces giving weight and emotional influence to my work is the News. Whether broadcast over the airwaves, cable channels, or the internet, news media has provided the iconic, symbolic, and stereotypical images that are central to my work.

While a gallery's white space frames a piece and declares its importance, the news does the same in a spectacular, and often more profound, way. It provides the initial cultural impetus for the work and continues to influence its reception over time. A viewer's understanding is shaped by the "current situation," which acts like a pathogen, subtly infecting their interpretation of the art.

However, I've lost interest in directly engaging with the overt materials of the industrial information news complex. Instead, I'm drawn to the moving colors and forms of news program intro and outro graphics. I want to decipher and latch onto the brilliant, repetitive qualities of major network motion graphics.

In Breaking (Slow News), I composited numerous show headers from CNN and Fox News into a continuous, abstract dance of colors and shapes. Similar to my previous works, where I've recontextualized found images, I've stripped these industrial entertainment graphics bare. I've reduced and slowed their forms as they pass across the screen. They have no shape, no purpose, and no real meaning.

What remains is a pure spectacle, devoid of content. Perhaps we can glean from these forms, both the news channels' and my own, that they are simply meant to entice, excite, and enrage. Ultimately, they seek to nullify thought with spectacle, ad infinitum.