Artist Statement
As an artist it is my nature to observe, express, and share my environment; this is the force that drives my need to create. I find inspiration by extracting visual elements from my surroundings. I find them in the simplest architectural forms, repetition in nature, and in the wide range of color and texture that exists in the urban landscape; the perfectly imperfect, in other words.
In my mind’s eye and sometimes through snapshots taken while out and about, I collect this so-called urban clutter and work it into each composition through a layered arrangement of color and texture, punctuated by unexpected moments of design. In my collage work, I achieve this composition via the use of both found and made papers in which I utilize photography, drawing, painting, and screen-printing. In my weavings, the process is simplified in terms of materials (traditional yarns and found remnants), though it is ultimately a parallel process of creating - intuitive and recurrent construction, deconstruction, and recombination of materials and imagery.
In both, I strive for a visible evolution of thought and vision. My goal is to leave the viewer with feelings of familiarity, nostalgia, connection and accessibility.
In my mind’s eye and sometimes through snapshots taken while out and about, I collect this so-called urban clutter and work it into each composition through a layered arrangement of color and texture, punctuated by unexpected moments of design. In my collage work, I achieve this composition via the use of both found and made papers in which I utilize photography, drawing, painting, and screen-printing. In my weavings, the process is simplified in terms of materials (traditional yarns and found remnants), though it is ultimately a parallel process of creating - intuitive and recurrent construction, deconstruction, and recombination of materials and imagery.
In both, I strive for a visible evolution of thought and vision. My goal is to leave the viewer with feelings of familiarity, nostalgia, connection and accessibility.
