Concepts, emotions and experiences fuel my creative process emerging as enigmatic imagery. For my bodies of works an unfettered imagination is called forth. I am pulled to the complexity of the human endeavor—to live fully. My art work grapples with the intimate and personal that remains universal to all of us. This work is my process of wrestling with and engaging the full spectrum of feelings which blend the passionate and pleasurable—the angst and anguish, the uncertainty and the unsettled—communal experiences beyond language. Through these images I see, and I seek the constancy of hope; bound as all mortal beings are, by our desire to know, to reach beyond our conscious minds—to understand. In the making of these works, these questions become action, a gesture, and a reaching toward the poignancy of growth.
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