Morning Sea Rock Illuminated

Artist statement

My hope is for the work I am making to communicate a sense of perceptual movement and that within this movement, there is the invitation to ask questions more than a statement that quiets them – an experience that is more atmospheric than specifically defined. I look for this in nuanced material tensions and by pairing ordered forms with organic mark-making. Formal elements oftentimes reference and are created by the environments where I am working, and imagery emerges in a generative and reciprocal way, one element informing the next. In many cultural mythologies, the concept of a “creation space” is expressed as an ambiguous event out of which perception expands, and cultures are born, the outcome often unpredictable yet inherently full of hope. As an artist and educator, I feel deeply the importance of pointing to that space—which is at once ordered and chaotic, controlled and serendipitous—as a positive place of creative potential and possibility.