Artist’s Statement

When I move further away in time from the experience of working in the studio, I have more to say about my artwork. I build a coherent verbal frame to associate with the pieces. That is distinct from how things evolve in the studio and, depending on when you ask, I have more or less faith in that thinking’s relevance.

I believe, or maybe hope, that somehow in the processes of the studio my understandings and priorities are revealed (as much to me as to others). I think in looking at art you can see patterns, forms, ways to understand the experience of life.

Two ideas have seemed to live in my work for a while:
--true wholeness is an ongoing breaking and healing, not the absence of hurt,
--the holy lives in the grit of the everyday.

The thought I am interested in exploring somehow with my work now is standing at an edge, looking beyond. Some of the forms are meant to remind me of gates and windows. One boundary I consider is the edge of life. I’m not sure how important it is that you know that or see that, but that thinking shapes some of the decisions I make.