Artist Statement April 2024

My work is grounded in materials. The materials are conduits for my body. Likewise, my body is the conduit for the inextricable and voluminous feelings about all that I experience. This is true both in the present and via deep memory. Our bodies house our experiences. In this sense I suppose that my work is a kind of off gassing.

The goal in executing the work is to pour out these feelings and allow them to guide. I act as a conduit between impulse and image making in order to cultivate a situation where broader meaning can bloom. When the initial impulse is honored, the work flows.

I seek synthesis when I concentrate on anything. Working with abandon opens the process to the possibility of revelation.