As an artist I am preoccupied by a desire to create art that captures the type of joy or beauty that is painful, memories that are sacred yet fading. My art is about a desire to remember and be remembered; it is about inevitable loss and the questions and concerns that follow that reality. Finally, my art is about a search for hope and beauty amidst the cycle of living, breaking, dying, and fading.
Often times these themes and preoccupations of mine lead me to photograph and collect objects and moments that I want to remember: nature, sticks and stones, river rocks, driftwood, a quiet afternoon, when I am alone, when we are together. These photographs and collections then become the reference point from which I paint, draw and sculpt. I then utilize organic shapes and colors, as well as the process of layering and fragmenting the imagery I have collected to represent the themes of memory, redemption, and longing.
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