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STATEMENT

In my work using means both formal and familiar, the organic and the man-made, I am engaged with the connection  between breaking down, creation, uncertainty and transformation.   

The impulse in my practice is immediately informed by sensory response to materiality and consistent informational overload.  My response to this over-stimulation results in having several projects going on simultaneously as if trying "to hold" the multi-dimensions of complexity that I try to sift and edit, while building. While the projects inform each other, and straddle the space between painting and sculpture, in each I am looking for the deep attention to bring me to the "quintessence."  

Chance and control, change and uncertainty are important guiding elements. Paper - which I love for its range, flexibility and forgiving quality is an ongoing exploration. My practice also includes materials traditionally invisible, plus common, discarded and mundane materials and tools which i use to explore the extraordinary, the sublime, and the sacred.

While respecting characteristics inherent in materials and tools, new or found, I am compelled to re-purposing and converting these same materials. I look to re-employ in ways that detour and extend from their original purpose.  Using techniques which “interfere” such as burning, perforating and blading (without prior sketching), I obliterate while simultaneously creating; the two are inseparable.

My ever-shifting installations are often rooted in the exploration of physicality and immateriality.  They consist of fragments made in the studio, created site-specific for exhibition.   My labor intensive process and varied surfaces reflect my interest in playing with and attempting to concretize the cyclical nature of things.

Through my meditation and deliberation on chance, control and uncertainty, my work is also further stretched by paradox: empty/full, conceal/reveal, common/sacred, shadow/light, pain/beauty, fragment/whole, visible/invisible, rupture/repair, static/movement.