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The subject of my work is transition and revelation. My focus is on the rhythm and patterns that move in and out of form. Abstraction allows for a musical response to the physical world, a lyrical response to the seemingly solid. It is also malleable and open to create a poetic language that can bridge polarities in the mind. Drawing on my experience as a dancer, and my romance with the natural world, I work in my studio with a variety of pace and technique. Collaborating with the materials, I explore the relationship of accident and invocation, inspiration and surprise, as well as microscopic and telescopic vision. The push and pull of erotic form and texture is always part of my work as well as movements of ascension, dissension, and horizontal flow. Adding and subtracting, rendering and destroying, I stop when the surface is both expanding and contracting, when there is a sense of place and history, and when an image is able to carry a momentum on its own. My goal is to create landscapes and gardens that are celebratory and restorative; that hint at an emotional and psychological resurrection. |