Artist's Statement
Open Secrets of Nature:
This work arises out of my particular connection to nature and my fascination with fundamental things and phenomena: the gestures of animate and inanimate beings toward and away from each other, the revelations that come with light and with darkness and the way that thought slips in and out of consciousness. It is about the nesting of worlds within each other and the simultaneity of diverse experiences in the same place.
My work process alternates between the intentional activity of drawing and painting and t he scanning and reconstruction process of collage. These methods reflect the ways in which we move forward with the new and reformulate or reassemble the familiar to enlarge our world. Some of the images reflect the way we experience the whole; some mirror the fragmentary nature of our experience or the way in which beginnings of things emerge piecemeal or are layered over each other to create meaning.