ARTIST STATEMENT

My art suggests an interconnectedness between nature, culture and spirituality or to phrase it in more personal terms: the raw, the cooked and the essence of all things. I like to blur the boundaries between representation and abstraction and often find that one derives from the other. My focus is on whatever I happen to be exploring in the world around me, allowing images to resonate in my mind’s eye. Although photography is at the core of my work, I have always had an affinity for mixed media. Thus, raw image files are just a starting point for me. Drawing on the Jasper Johns quote, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it,” I take an image or group of images and work on a visual transmutation. My expanded toolbox includes a Nikon, a MacBook, an iPad, an iPhone, Photoshop, a Wacom tablet, a sketchbook, various forms of graphite, markers and pastels. Inspiration generally finds me while I’m not actively pursuing it. It can come through music, natural and cultural environments, meditation, stimulating conversations, other artists’ work, moments in film, passages in literature.