ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a twitchy splat of genuine let's rethink that.

I want to leave intimate questions and marks under the skin so you look at the world differently.

I want to see, shuffle, make mine, present, and shed evocative imagery.

I delight in accidental and guided messiness, in seeing the individual among the group, in disparate imagery that suddenly adds up to so much more, in the beauty of delicacy and rawness, of detail and extreme, the charm of honesty.

And, I love movement. I love its right here and nowness. Its silly, lovely, awkward, grace.

My work is ensemble and I always begin and end my process in solitude. I sit with my fists in front of my eyes rearranging and envisioning the ideas and images before me as though on a dark movie screen. Flip, move over, replace, put it back, flip, take it out, put it back, tilt it, see it sideways, reshape it, take it out, add in. A word becomes a metaphor, a topic. The images dance around the word, tripping and tumbling along. And there it is in all its immediacy, the beginning of a new piece.

My process is alternately intensely personal and open, inhabiting moments of sparkling clarity and groping climb. I'd like to say I go with it all, trusting it will lead to the endpoint I'm seeking. But I fret and push and nudge, feeling at all times responsible for what I create and what I put forth. I leave pieces of myself all around and feel naked. And then I do it again.

I believe art counts. I believe in its delicious, fibrous, textural insights. In the way it helps us understand the complexity of ourselves. I want to be a part of that. I step away for a deep breath, and I'm at it again.