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For me, my art is more about sensing than about understanding intellectually. My work develops from my intuition. It channels raw, driving emotions that are almost impossible to condense into words; feelings expressed in shape and line, color and texture. Art tells me what I need to know, what I’m afraid to acknowledge. I try to open my head and bring others into my world, spilling myself onto paper and canvas with layers of colors, shapes, lines, light, shadow, texture, images, words, and memories. My visual vocabulary intuitively reveals layers of my past, present and future life and my emotional responses and perceptions of the world I see around me.
My current series involves bringing forth images in layers of my past, both recent and distant, as seen through the filters of my imagination and emotions. Images may show fading memories. Colors and texture express joy, love, fear, confusion and desire. Fabric represents the fabric of my life, threads of connections with people and places. Pattern pieces and paper scraps show patterns of behavior I have become aware of and rejoice in or try to change. Words, letters, and numbers may reveal secrets or truths emerging through the layers I’ve kept hidden, even from myself. Through my eyes and hands, I am expressing my personal connection with the world. I strive to push past the boundaries of my internal uncertainty, to help me understand my place in the world and become more intensely and completely myself.
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