About the Artist

Becoming is a word that informs my work. Notions of shifting relationships regarding self, community, and politic have always intrigued me, and keep me actively engaged in discerning the wonder of our past and present. Accordingly, phenomena of the natural world from cosmic supernovas to mangrove root systems, which live in multiple states of nature simultaneously, strike me as visual metaphors to relate these notions and make their way into everything I create. These networks are always in motion, expanding and contracting, accumulating and eroding, much like human knowledge and interactions within and without. That liminal state of being is where questions are born, depth of character continues to unfold, and most importantly, empathy is cultivated.

I desire to intrigue viewers into a sense of discovery, much as a child embodies a new understanding of the world around them. I want for a viewer to be pulled to examine from afar and in close. The use of abstraction, positive and negative spaces, unusual forms, and ways of contextualizing present adults’ moments outside of the mundane and “known”, places them in a fresh space of curiosity. Abstraction, throughout the history of art, has always been about the emotional self, about the search for the deepest sense of connectivity to the overwhelming feelings of the spirit. An accumulation of those experiences can be a powerful force, and much like rocks in a river can recreate patterns of engagement diverging the landscape of one’s perceptions.

Clay is my vehicle to live in that space. The act of creation, from the lump of wet earth to the sculpture it becomes, satisfies my desire to exist in an undetermined world. This material, which can be anything, keeps my imagination moving and pokes at my attentiveness to the possibilities of new forms and surfaces. I am able to develop new relationships all the time. Forms come to life, weaving through space, connecting and bifurcating, revealing themselves moment-by-moment, experience-by-experience.  The artist Ann Hamilton wrote, “One doesn’t arrive – in words or in art – by necessarily knowing where one is going.” The old adage, “It’s not about the destination, but the journey” comes to mind. Clay and connections to science and philosophy keep me examining and loving the journey