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Artist Statement
As a child, I accompanied my father, an architect, to many of his construction sites. I wandered over disturbed earth to reach planks of wood that led me to the skeletons of incomplete forms. While climbing through wood frames, under pipes, and around wires, I collected as many hidden treasures as my pockets could hold, especially metal and wood scraps. These were mysterious spaces to me, and I imagined having to find my way out of certain doom.
The world is a mystery of glory and wreckage, truth and duplicity, strength and frailty, beauty and ugliness. My sensibility responds to what I see as a universe in constant transformation. Like nature and the products of human ingenuity, my work is a process of building, destroying, penetrating and leaving. My marks, lines, and shapes borrow from the extravagance of nature. At the same time, I incorporate human materials: hardware, construction wood and metal scraps, tar and twine. These objects have personal meaning, of course, but they also suggest the human hand of mystery. These discarded things can still teach us something about the world.
I am still trying to find my way through a mystery still under construction. Through all the chaos, fragments, and hopelessness, there are always places of beauty and endless possibility. My work takes the viewer along for the journey. As Paul Valery once wrote about poems, my paintings are not finished, only abandoned.