My art’s responsibility is to the artist’s inner need. It is the nexus between thought and form, a conduit of thought. My work explores issues of self preservation, introspection, discovery, mental illness, fear and anxiety and also serves as a meditative and coping process for the artist.
People suffer everyday. My art often reflects this and always serves as a personal catharsis. It is how I coexist and simultaneously recognize my own existence. Repetition acts as self meditation, both binding me to the world and releasing me from it. It focuses on relationships that consider an entity relative to its surroundings. Repetition encourages questions larger than the individual, with a fundamental revelation being that it’s good to question how one’s energy leaves the body.
I work in a process of negotiation and discovery, both mentally and physically, within each piece. Emphasis is placed on the composition of color, line and form. 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 life. My art is my greatest recognition of self.
