ARTIST STATEMENT
My art’s responsibility is to the artist’s inner need; a need of self-discovery and self-actualization. It is the nexus between thought and form, a conduit of thought. My work explores issues relevant to the capacity to self-preservation, to mental illness, fear and anxiety and also the capacity to create and be greater than our suffering. My art reveals these truths and serves as both meditative and a coping process for the artist.
My art is a reflection, a personal catharsis. It is how I coexist while simultaneously recognizing my own existence. There is a process of building and negotiating, and
in this way there is a connection to an artist's own personal language. Continual discovery encourages questions larger than the individual, with a fundamental revelation being that it’s good to question how one’s energy leaves the body. It is not about survival, but about transcendence.
I thrive in this process of negotiation and discovery, both mentally and physically, within each piece. Emphasis is placed on the building of the form and a figurative remodeling from what is familiar, expressing one's natural hand and the artistic language that has always existed in the artist. My work focuses on color, form and line and the relationships that consider an entity relative to its surroundings. Actions are primarily intuitive and reactionary, and there exists a history of conversation, a push and pull between the artist and what the work discloses. The work is testimony to my life, my reflections, my glimmers of understanding and connecting, and ultimately becomes saturated with the quality of my life. My art is my greatest recognition of self.
