Artist's Statement

When asked, “What media do I work in?”, I reply, multi-media.

I am interested in presenting the narratives of my work

in the most effective ways possible. I use multiple medias

and combine them to best express the concepts of my different series. My current media exploration is cyan-o-type techniques.

Over the years my work has been a collaboration of drawing,

painting, photography, printmaking, and digital technology.

I believe art has no steadfast rules. Part of my challenge has become to utilize new media and technology in conjunction with

celebrated old world techniques to create contemporary art that

speaks to the viewer with a new narrative or perspective.

Some of my work is abstract but I am also a symbolist. Utilizing

and repeating certain shapes gives them a symbolic meaning.

I call these shapes and symbols my visual vocabulary. Some of the symbols are recognizable, objects, and icons. I try to free the shapes, symbols, and textural collage materials by eliminating their traditional perspective and viewpoint. They are not tied to a horizon line and float in space often expressing different perspectives. Color and light theory are instrumental in my work because they are magical and create mood, movement, energy, emotional content, and compositional connection.

Most of my art series are time based, and in some way relate to time and change. They speak and tell a story of some aspect of time and space. These aspects are sometimes biographical, sometimes metaphysical, and sometimes philosophical.

Sometimes these pieces are a chaotic combination of these aspects, but they are meant to communicate a positive approach to change as a constructive catalyst for life.