I am a mixed media artist. I work in any medium that captures my interest and accomplishes my need. My process is one of discovery and evolution where the original concept rarely makes it to the finished piece. I begin with a thought, an image, a found object, something I overhear or read. Sometimes the stimulous for a piece or a series comes from an emotional state. Relationships happen out of random happenstance. I rely on serendipity, coincidental or intentional, Im never exactly sure. Chance, choice and the process of trial and error eventually makes a connection and I stop. It is a piece.
Currently I am infatuated with wax, it is luxurious and sensuous, it melts, melds and creates a membrane for my work. It is indeed the tissue that holds the mirad of stuff that is my work. It is like skin.
As I work, juxtapositions that seem to randomly happen give reason to vast disconnection I feel in everyday life and help my efforts to organize the noisy bombardment of stimuli.
I watch, seek and connect. I draw, paint,and collect, I read, write and collage, I build, sew, listen and observe. My muse is an unconscious intiution and my decisions are an eternal surprise.
The work itself creates and re-creates who I am and who I become. It contains my life and speaks of my experience. My art is a construction of self.