Art is Storytelling
Examining and communicating personal experiences, I strive to connect with the viewer by creating work that tell my personal story using familiar and foreign symbols and iconography. While making that work I find myself most often reflecting on the effects of time and change in the natural world and on people. These are my artistic north stars.
Each work is a puzzle without a single solution. I think of my work as a series of clues that the viewer can use to decipher my life while exploring their own - a trail of bread crumbs I am leaving behind for myself and for others – for me to remember where I have been and for others to decipher what my journey has meant.
I often utilize found objects because each one has a rich history, a patina and a story to tell. Sometimes that story is part of the one I am trying to weave together and sometimes it is a challenge to incorporate an object that has such a profound presence that it defies my ability to incorporate it.
I find that the process of art-making is best achieved when I am able to plumb my unconscious while allowing my consciousness to guide the art-making process.
