My art reflects my awareness to my body’s natural biological processes and the greater natural system that surrounds me. I look to nature for my inspiration. I acknowledge life cycles, degeneration, and the mystery of life returning. I use biological sources and microscopic forms as an analogue for my unconscious thoughts. These building blocks of morphology serve as the basis of all life and of our being before identify is fixed. I draw from the environment because of its processes. I am attached to its perfection and imperfection. It is a mystery, and it gives me a sense of connection to all that is living and dying. Our physiological environment is constantly evolving in its continual struggle to exist and renew itself. We are also in constant flux. Our world is changing faster than we can perceive and we need a new way to see it. I believe a crisis of perception is at hand. Through my art, I contemplate the concept of nature’s time versus our human notions of time.
Through the process of painting, I explore a variety of techniques such as scratching into the surface of the paint, over painting, and transparency in order to create the patterns and forms that emerge from a discovery of appropriation and repetition. Often, oppositional forces come into play, outer and inner worlds, life and death, beginnings and endings.
My art mirrors a life force, yet it also embraces death and the cyclical processes found in nature. It acknowledges the spirit world and my desire to heal and nurture all those I am closest to. My art reflects my on-going need to grow and to transform myself as I move forward into the unknown.
Through the process of painting, I explore a variety of techniques such as scratching into the surface of the paint, over painting, and transparency in order to create the patterns and forms that emerge from a discovery of appropriation and repetition. Often, oppositional forces come into play, outer and inner worlds, life and death, beginnings and endings.
My art mirrors a life force, yet it also embraces death and the cyclical processes found in nature. It acknowledges the spirit world and my desire to heal and nurture all those I am closest to. My art reflects my on-going need to grow and to transform myself as I move forward into the unknown.
