Artist Statement
- We are forever seeking answers to who we are and why we are. On this endless journey and process of search, we attract and detract elements we come across in our lives. These elements accumulate, continually adding, subtracting, overlapping and layering one upon the other. The resulting structure is who we are as individuals, groups, society, country and ultimately the world. These elements consist not only of things we see but also of those we can't visually encounter. I create art as a visual philosophy. I observe, analyze and interpret people and the world to answer the questions we ask ourselves and then avoid. It is often that we live our lives simply receiving things given to us. We listen to what we are told and we see what we are shown. We have covered our ears to things that are not spoken and we have shut our eyes upon things that are not shown. It is a challenge and a risk to attempt beyond, beneath and behind the obvious things presented to us. I step back as far as I can from my physical self and the world we live in. I look beyond, beneath and behind to open the eyes and uncover the ears.
- Just as an individual is a result of a collection of elements, my work is a collection of process, medium, idea and other elements. The elements of medium such as color, line; the elements of process and the elements of idea interact with each other creating the final piece. The two-dimensional shapes are added, subtracted, overlapped and layered upon one another creating new shapes, colors and ultimately a complete structure. Some of these shapes are hidden and some are apparent. It is through this continuation of moving in and out of the shapes that you see the obvious, the hidden then the individually interpreted shapes.
