Artist Statement

The pursuit of a found image, not intentionally drawn, but discovered on a worked surface, directs all my creative energies. There is a sense of anxiety and mystery in not knowing what the image will be until it reveals itself; I have trust that images will appear.

Drawing randomly without purpose or content. I turn the piece, erase and rub into the medium until purely abstract mark-making becomes three-dimensional and ultimately suggests recognizable form. Compelling human images appear, guiding me to resolve composition.

As though captured in a glimpse of memory or dream, enduring aspects of human relationships are explored, from figures caught in contemplative moments, grace of individuals performing everyday tasks to actively dealing with threatening world forces.

Reflecting our zeitgeist, the eruption of human struggle as subject matter signals the disturbance in world order. Tangled and intertwined bodies in groups of determined people reacting to an outpouring of human suffering emerge, revealing universal impacts of migration and family separation.

As color escapes boundaries and freely flows through transparent layers of multiple views, details of the thematic undercurrent of our mutual dependency are slowly released. The figures revealed lead me to creation far beyond the observable realm.