Artist Statement

We had to write artist statements for our thesis catalog recently. Here's mine:

The world itself is an absurd, unfair and frequently hostile place. At any point a meaningful life can lose all its meaning. It is during an existential confrontation with unrelenting external forces and the resultant breakdown of assumed truths in which we are most in touch with our condition as humans. Matt’s work eschews the idea of cinema as mere entertainment or a vehicle of escapism and favors a sense of realism that strives towards revelations of the human condition. Matt finds kinship in Joseph Conrad, who once stated, “My task…is to make you hear, to make you feel – and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything.”