I work figuratively and abstractly/conceptually. The work crosses between painting and sculpture. My unwillingness to accept a particular description as an artist is a means of maintaining a sense of autonomy and vitality in the work—of being “in-between.”
The felt experience comes before the artwork. The vision is the emotion; I see moments in time like a snapshot, and they translate to whatever medium that feels right. The art comes before the language. Elements of symbolism and metaphor come into the pieces.
By concealing and tangling the visual language there is a secretiveness. The wrapping or covering of the artwork forces me and the viewer to look for the layers of meaning. We are left to untangle a meaning or not. It is not essential to the work because one goal is to find a grace in some of the unusual materials I use and to make an object which is beautiful. However, my hope is that we look deeper; beneath the beauty lies the message which is usually not so pretty.