As a growing artist, I am enjoying the exploration of a variety of materials and processes. At this time, I choose the appropriate methods for each individual project and idea, whether they are digitally manipulated, glued mixed media, constructed from a junk pile, carefully painted, or vigorously drawn. I enjoy working with my hands. Have you ever noticed how a baby looks intently at her hands in front of her face and we imagine that she is asking, “Do these belong to me?” I frequently catch myself studying my hands, the gray graphite under the nails, the different coloured spots and smears of paint, or the nicks and scrapes, and wonder, “Do these really and truly belong to me?”
I could state that I am interested in exploring and creating dialogues about societal issues such as relationships and reconciliation, but this is very broad. While I am fascinated with probing all types of relationships, such as the ones that exist between you and me as individuals, or between us and the planet, or between metal and water, or between a certain hue of blue and reddish orange, I know that those enquiries will take more years to explore than all the years in ten lifetimes. In the here and now, I find myself creating works that speak to matters of inequality.
I also allow myself to respond to the work of other artists, contemporary or historical, to attempt to generate a response to the question they are asking or statement they are making in the visual conversation that is art.