Purpose

We are never as isolated as we imagine. 

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We are never as isolated as we imagine.  〰️

Method

In my experience acting, I've been able to adopt characters, study their behaviors and traits, influence my thinking with theirs, learn their history, and impress upon that role my own adaptation and interpretation. I've learned to be brave and boundless when it comes to developing a role. Instead of attempting to fill a cast, I live boldly as that character, helping to bridge my personal relationship with the role and its newfound philosophies. This allows me to make more genuine choices as well as react more authentically as a character. 

When I embark on a project, I bring my renaissance character and personal connection to a work without fail.

  • I consider acting the noble pursuit of exploring humanity and our existence both singular and communal. I strive for collaboration in order to best tell stories, a tenet I have always espoused. I hold the work highest, not any singular role.My interest is human, one of curiosity and exploration, learning and discovery, that contribute to my part in portraying such a myriad of humanity.

“The more things you’re willing to try, the more possibilities you have for storytelling.”
— Viggo Mortensen

  • I work hard to possess the depth, empathy, and understanding to believe the words of my characters and fully commit to their truths. When I work in film, I bring my own adventurous person as well.

    It is my intrepid and eclectic living that informs my own acting, profoundly augmenting the level of truth I then can carry. In the words of Sanford Meisner, I can then better live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

Constant Renewal

  • As a traveler and citizen of the world, I could not restrict myself to my own nation. Since, when I act, I explore what it is to be human, not simply American. Therefore, I have always appreciated the perspective I can glean from my immersion in cultures across the world. 

  • I dream to work with minds from around the world, all bringing their own flares, on works that bring spirit to those who view them. Whether it makes them laugh, dream, think and discuss, or cry, I wish to bring my dreams to life and share them, build on them, explore them, and inspire through them.

  • As an actor, I also wish to use my talent and that of those around me to share my voice and broadcast the voice of those without one.

In 2018, I sought more than what I was learning in the confines of my conservatory buildings. I yearned to breathe the air of my characters, to better understand and appreciate what I portrayed on film and on stage. Akin to my passion for respect and commitment to my work and the art, I felt I must gain experience in life, stories of my own to harken to when telling those of others. 

Thence I set out to do just that, venturing to, studying amongst, and living within various peoples and cultures, encountering myriad phenomena, and learning both others' fables filled with feeling as well as the long encompassing saga I myself write. I immersed in my time, engaged in my era campaigning for Bernie Sanders, pursued the knowledge of timeless truths sown in pre-christian European animist thought, as well as its adaptation to our existing epoch through arts, liminal spaces, and other forms of acting/action. I gave my art depth, texture and reason. 

Even throughout the coming of the Covid virus, I have worked to maintain and nourish my international artistic network, coming to the UK in the heat of the pandemic to finish my studies with new direction and purpose, with which I conducted a dissertation on Viking Reenactment as Temporal Harmony, and vastly independently forged my thesis art piece, the film project Bjárkansmál in the wilds of Yorkshire, England. I have since traveled North to Scotland to settle in Edinburgh to create and play a role in the country's arts, with my own taking on a Celtic tinge.

I wish to weave histories of people worlds apart with varying truths yet relatable humanities.

Philosophy


In my work and creation I spin with threads already present in our rope. I turn to the past to inspire our present, for many truths and myths are timeless, even if adapted. Our histories have much to teach us, and through my work I seek to breathe life into them again, rendering them very much alive, brimming with timeless wisdoms, and engaging.

Our lives are all threads, spun together and endlessly interwoven. For this reason I believe stories, yarns, from all times and cultures can resonate and inform our own sagas.

  • Veiled in the smog of industry there remain threads of timeless stories that link us to eachother, our collective pasts, and the lands that have given us life.

    These myths have given hope and identities to individuals and entire cultures. I seek to tap in to this deep consciousness to inform my work. Through it I connect with myself and those that came before me, to memories from long before my birth that bond me to the land and through which I find belonging. This source can be a tool of healing and strength to many, when loose strands intertwine to weave a unified thread, from the dark and hidden past and in to the misty future we find ourselves living recurring legends, reimagined.

    In the isles of Britain, steeped in the tales of countless overlapping cultures, I have come to search for the remaining essences of these folk memories, clouded in industrialization and various -isms, to heal a populace and strengthen roots to land and eachother.